D. T. Suzuki Quotes
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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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I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small, tasty delights, and I like to gorge on them now and then.
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Choosing to arm and train the Islamist opposition against dictator Moammar Gadhafi unleashed its most ruthless terrorist elements.
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Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions.
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Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
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I am aware that many regard me as an anti-sports character person, but the truth is that the country's economy by then was in bad shape. Tanzania being among the highly indebted countries, I had to give sports the least prominence during my first term, while setting priorities in revitalising our economy.
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One has not understood until one has forgotten it.
