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'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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But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
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I don't think the isolation of the American writer is a tradition; it's more that, geographically, he just is isolated, unless he happens to live in New York City. But I don't suppose there's a small town around the country that doesn't have a writer.
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Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.
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A lot of cops in fiction are very depressive and are kind of downbeat, and they've got all kinds of existential angst that they're dealing with.
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I see Rick Perry the other day. ... He's doing very poorly in the polls. He put on glasses so people will think he's smart. And it just doesn't work! You know people can see through the glasses!
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In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.
