Okakura Kakuzo Quotes
The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
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History's a resource.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
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Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
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Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
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I never rebelled against my parents - I worked hard, I was responsible, and I didn't go to high-school parties.
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Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are.
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.
