D. T. Suzuki Quotes
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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I've just always been a bit of a dork.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
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I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I'm a vocabulary nerd.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper.
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The stat is the score. And when you don't win that score, nothing good happens.
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I have this theory about why men kill each other and break things. … Never mind. It's a dumb theory. I was going to say it was all sexual … but everything is sexual … but alcohol.
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We lose things all the time. We lose ourselves every day. We lose our minds occasionally. But it's just a part of life, loss.
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Twenty men crossing a bridge, Into a village, Are Twenty men crossing a bridge Into a village.
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I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
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The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.
