Miyamoto Musashi Quotes
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'
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I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.
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That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
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Very few women manage to have it all; certainly not all at once.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted droning guitar instrumentals, which I listened to heavily in my teens and twenties; I even produced an hour or so of banjo music in an imitative John Fahey style.
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But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.
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Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world
