Shinzo Abe Quotes
Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
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I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
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I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
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You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.
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I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.
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I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.
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My solo playing utilizes the deployment of suggestive psychic rhythms. I'll state these throughout a given piece and play thematic improvisations on top of that. I like to suggest that rhythmic movement without always playing it. I like to create openings that I can step into.
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Try to see what attitudes rule your day, then ask what kind of a day you usually have.
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No, I don't think 'The Wire' screwed up my career at all.
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So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities.
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Certain events make people come out of their little boxes and become part of the whole.
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The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual. This being the situation, it is clear that you cannot develop your personality at all in Hinduism.
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When the time comes you've got to make stops. You've got to contest shots, block shots and make it tough for them. We're doing it as a team. Every night we get better at helping each other.
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There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.
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Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and the author of Man's Search for Meaning, wrote that human beings create meaning in three ways: thought their work, though their relationships, and by how they choose to meet unavoidable suffering. Every life brings hardship and trial, and every life also offers deep possibilities for meaningful work and love... I've learned that courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin.
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I forget, because it’s hard to realize that the same person who gives you so much love, and to whom you give so much in return, can go through the kinds of pain and suffering that nothing you do can alleviate.
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In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.
