D. T. Suzuki Quotes
The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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I used to get very nervous before a concert. It's okay when you are in a band. You can kind of disappear. But when it's just you... yes, that was difficult. I would not say it is easy now. But when you do it for a long time, you do learn to cope.
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.
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Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced, accumulated, put into circulation, and set to work. Power cannot be exercised unless a certain economy of discourses of truth functions in, on the basis of, and thanks to, that power."
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Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.
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The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.
