D. T. Suzuki Quotes
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I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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Say yes to everything.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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I talk about Beyonce too much. I am a diehard.
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One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.
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No, I never - no one ever - I never learned anything when I was a kid. Honestly, my parents had nothing to tell me - like, no wisdom, nothing.
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The reality today is that we are all interdependent and have to co-exist on this small planet. Therefore, the only sensible and intelligent way of resolving differences and clashes of interests, whether between individuals or nations, is through dialogue.
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When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.
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The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
