Dainin Katagiri Quotes
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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The ones who say "you can't" and "you won't" are probably the ones that are scared that you will.
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There might just be a universal expectation to respect the dead, but my work is also born from another aspect of Thai society - that is, the overemphasis on familial bonds.
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The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy.
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If you want to find Buddha nature, love someone and care for them.
