Eugen Herrigel Quotes
Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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Ill give you a definite maybe.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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Seeing a full display of humanity involved in space is a game-changer for everyone. We've all looked at the stars; we've all imagined what was going on. Not everyone wants to go, but everyone wants to know what it's like.
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If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
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When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did.
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
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Decisions of this Court do not have intrinsic authority.
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I try not to repeat myself too often, but it's a gamble. 'Fred Claus' had three Oscar winners in it. No business - it was a bad movie.
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I got an invitation to go to the Olympic trials. And in the same week, I got a telegram from a... big executive at Columbia Records.
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I have a gruff character.
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What worries me is to be in the best physical form to score goals.
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I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.
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The advent of so much dribbling has created a different kind of player, and it starts at a very early age. We have so many gifted ball handlers. Everything is pick-and-roll. Unless he's a catch-and-shoot guy, a player is going to put it on the floor and attack. Kevin Durant is a wonderful ball handler.
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I love my boys so much I fear my heart will explode. I wonder if this love will crack open my chest and split me in half. It is scary, this love.
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We laid the foundation before we went to a major label.
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Ἄφοβον ὁ θεός,ἀνύποπτον ὁ θάνατοςκαὶ τἀγαθὸν μὲν εὔκτητον,τὸ δὲ δεινὸν εὐεκκαρτέρητον
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The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing.
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Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.
