D. T. Suzuki Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
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I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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I'm on Facebook anonymously. I wanted to see how people use it, what's going on there, but I personally didn't want to be on it because everybody in the world tries to get to you with scripts.
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I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.
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Most ballets are more interesting than most men.
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I'll eat anything. I love food in general. I love traditional Mexican, carne asada. Just meat, beans, rice, and some good salsa.
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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
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I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?
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Transparency concerning the Federal Reserve's conduct of monetary policy is desirable because better public understanding enhances the effectiveness of policy. More important, however, is that transparent communications reflect the Federal Reserve's commitment to accountability within our democratic system of government.
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A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted.
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One has not understood until one has forgotten it.
