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.
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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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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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Art and revolt will die only with the last man.
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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.
