D. T. Suzuki Quotes
The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
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For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
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When we fought for freedom, for the establishment of a Jewish state, we didn't send a questionnaire to the Jewish nation asking if it wanted a Jewish state.
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I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.
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I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.
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I like horror movies, they're fun. It was the most fun I've had on a movie set.
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Art is fun to buy.
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Math is one of my favorite subjects.
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Once you know trans people, all you wanna do is protect them. They're not out to hurt anybody. They are trying to live.
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The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.
