Anko Itosu Quotes
Karate cannot be adequately learned in a short space of time. Like a torpid bull, regardless of how slowly it moves, it will eventually cover a thousand miles. So too, for one who resolves to study Karate diligently two or three hours every day. After three or four years of unremitting effort one's body will undergo a great transformation revealing the very essence of Karate.
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Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.
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My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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Most people care what people think about them... we all do.
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I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.
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You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.
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There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.
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I got up to leave. There was nothing more to be said. He had asked for what he knew I could not give, and I had refused.
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The people who are inspiring and strong for me are the ones who acknowledge vulnerabilities.
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Modern conveniences grant us more free time to focus on spiritual needs and devote more time to personal service. But the basic element which should never change in the lives of righteous young women is giving service to others.
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When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician, they generally describe a woman who wears long cotton skirts, braids her hair, eats only organic vegan food, does yoga, and maybe drives a VW microbus.
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I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.
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The first campaign that I recall was with Kate Moss and Marky Mark. Probably the most iconic jeans ad ever.
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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
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Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.
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Imagination is a powerful deceiver.
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Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.
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Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.
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I hate seaweed.
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Karate cannot be adequately learned in a short space of time. Like a torpid bull, regardless of how slowly it moves, it will eventually cover a thousand miles. So too, for one who resolves to study Karate diligently two or three hours every day. After three or four years of unremitting effort one's body will undergo a great transformation revealing the very essence of Karate.
