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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Since 'Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights' came out, I've done a fair amount of public speaking, and the two statistics that always make the audience sit up are that nearly one in three women will have had at least one abortion by menopause and 61 percent of women who have abortions are already mothers.
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Our only hope for tomorrow is peace now.
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The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was actually mummified, skin and all - but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
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If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins.
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I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.
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If you get asked a really tough question and you give a really good answer, you come off looking really good.
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When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.
