Shunryu Suzuki Quotes
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.

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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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The reality is that not only were we massively hit in 2008 when the bubble burst, and then we realized how deep the social gap, the economic gap in the world is between the super rich and the poor; also, we realized how impacted the environment has been. So there's been a physical consequence of that.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.
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I threw my best to every hitter I faced, and I found I had the strength to go all the way.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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I'm no stranger to joining a show in the third season. I joined 'Lost Girl' at the same stage, and that was a wonderful experience.
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Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.
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California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.
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I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.
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Let your children go if you want to keep them.
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I wanted more control. Painting was the only way to do it yourself. Movies require too many people. You can have an auteur vision but there’s a lot of money involved. And there’s a lot of people telling you what to do.
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Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
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Dakota Fanning is my favorite actress.
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Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
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Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.