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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I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself.
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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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Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.
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If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This phase can develop into an unhealthy, codependent relationship.
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The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.
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When you fall in love, love deeply. Be tough but also be open to the possibility of forgiveness.
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Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different means. Repression by the opponent is used against his own power position in a kind of political "ju-jitsu" and the very sources of his power thus reduced or removed, with the result that his political and military position is seriously weakened or destroyed.
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Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.
