Shunryu Suzuki Quotes
When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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Almost every character I've ever played - and sometimes this is very conscious and sometimes it's not - I need to find what they love.
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Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
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My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?
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A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented.
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I'm not a drummer anymore, on my gravestone, if there is one, if anyone writes anything about me besides hopefully being a dad, it would be that I sang in my band when I was in my 20s. So I was like, 'Yeah, I should probably focus on this a little more,' so I just practiced a lot. (When asked about his singing.)
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Can you imagine your second album - the difficult second album - it's about God? Everyone is tearing their hair out and Chris Blackwell says, 'It's okay. There's Bob Marley and Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, it's a tradition. We can get through it.
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I still haven't figured out how to have fun on a shoot.
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If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women?
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I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.
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I've managed to completely reeducate myself into making eating secondary. I used to eat all the time because the food was there. Now I feel like a kid in school who is gaining points for behaving. And I love myself for it.
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When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.
