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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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are.
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I like to be an idea person. I like to pull different people together and find new talent.
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Writers are idiots with Underwoods.
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I think probably, the makeup artists don't really know how long it's going to take until they really work with your face and they kind of mold it and build it as they're going along.
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When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.
