D. T. Suzuki Quotes
When I say that Zen is life, I mean that Zen is not to be confined within conceptualization, that Zen is what makes conceptualization possible.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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I've always found people to be by far the biggest problem-causers in life.
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Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.
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If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.
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I gave my life to the Lord at 12. I was baptized at 12.
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When I say that Zen is life, I mean that Zen is not to be confined within conceptualization, that Zen is what makes conceptualization possible.
