D. T. Suzuki Quotes
The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.
Quotes to Explore
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.
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I believe that if we are to continue to strengthen the social and economic fabric and future of this nation, we cannot tolerate laws that drive some of our best talent to choose between living in their country or with the person they love.
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I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
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I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.
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By faith we receive the saving grace of God that delivers us from guilt and sin. In love we participate in the victorious struggle of God against the principalities and powers of evil.
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The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.
