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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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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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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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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The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals.
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Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. Consistent intellectualism and spirituality may be socially valuable, up to a point; but they make, gradually, for individual death.
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I love the Grammy nominations this year. Anybody who really loves what they do got rewarded for it. It's not a death match between Ray Charles and Jessica Simpson.
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A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us.
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The more women and people of color who find positions of influence, the more women and people of color who will find positions of influence. So we need critical mass, and we're still working toward that. I won't be satisfied until we're at the 50-50 place, where we ought to be.
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The Bodhisattva lives by the sufferer’s standard, and he must be effective in aiding those who suffer.
