Dainin Katagiri Quotes
The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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Good design should be honest.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.
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Be like Curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what's there.
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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
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I've always found people to be by far the biggest problem-causers in life.
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The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.
