Miyamoto Musashi Quotes
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MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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Christianity is a battle not a dream.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.
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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
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People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.
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I have a problem with the way the House is run. I believe that a few people at the top of a pyramid of power have controlled this place for a long time.
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Horror movies are all about getting your attention; you always have to be on guard. People love to be on the edge - there's nothing like a surprise.
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One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.
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I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.
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People have a tendency to blame politicians when things don't work, but as I always tell people, you get the politicians you deserve. And if you don't vote and you don't pay attention, you'll get policies that don't reflect your interest.
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He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him; he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it at demand.
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Love is not all: it is not meat nor drinkNor slumber nor a roof against the rain;Nor yet a floating spar to men that sinkAnd rise and sink and rise and sink again;Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;Yet many a man is making friends with deathEven as I speak, for lack of love alone.
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For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have, Not universal love But to be loved alone.
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I love film, but it's funny going to drama school for three years, where you spend most of your time training for theatre, then coming out and just doing films.
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Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.
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[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.
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True warriors are fierce because their training is fierce.
