Gary Snyder Quotes
The Bodhisattva lives by the sufferer’s standard, and he must be effective in aiding those who suffer.
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I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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My family never owned a home. We leased.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response.
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Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures.
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.
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In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
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People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.
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I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'
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I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.
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I've given a lot of talks over the years on the subject of entrepreneurship. The first thing I find I have to do is to dispel the persistent myth that entrepreneurial success is all about innovative thinking and breakthrough ideas.
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For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.
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For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see.
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It was many and many a year ago,In a District styled E. C.,That a monster dwelt whom I came to knowBy the name of Cannibal Flea,And the brute was possessed with no other thoughtThan to live - and to live on me.
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Signs are not empirical objects. Empirical objects become signs (or they are looked at as signs) only from the point of view of a philosophical decision.
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Some days you feel like you've had the greatest ego massage, then the next day you've been trampled on.
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There's nothing women can't do. There's absolutely nothing we can't do. We're far stronger in a lot of ways than men. Way, way stronger than men. And that's my message to any woman I meet - that includes you - there's nothing you can't do, and you know that.
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Fame creeps up on you.
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There were tons of bronzed Scandinavian types at the Sorbonne. Marvellously blond and healthy and shining white teeth. Funny thing though, because someone told me that if you actually go to Scandinavia none of the people who actually live there look like that. It's just a front they put up when they're abroad.
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The Bodhisattva lives by the sufferer’s standard, and he must be effective in aiding those who suffer.
