Shinichi Suzuki Quotes
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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I want people to understand that I intend to continue living and doing all the things that I love to do up until the end. And the end is by no means rushing up on me.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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I want to play Eva Peron. I've already done a lot of Shakespeare, but I'd like to do Lady Macbeth.
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I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.
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Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing flip-flops, flames pour from his mouth, and it's impressive. But you see it in print, and it's just ugly.
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I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
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Of course I've had a problem with people taking me seriously because of my age. People are always going do that because you're less experienced; you haven't lived as much.
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It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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Wretched un-idea'd girls.
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Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content with the ersatz of Suchness, with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.
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Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the children of vested interest.
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I've always wanted to play a role in inspiring people to be better, to live higher quality lives and to feel good about the way that they look and feel.
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I play with children so that I can learn from them.
