Nichiren Quotes
That which you give to another will become your own sustenance; if you light a lamp for another, your own way will be lit.
Quotes to Explore
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My family are the epicenter of all my decisions.
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
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When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
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The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.
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I wrote 'Thelma & Louise' in 1988, and we shot it in 1990. Everyone kept saying, 'This is so groundbreaking... this is going to change the landscape,' but I don't see that result at all. When we saw some female studio executives, we were hopeful that more women would be hired as directors, but that didn't really seem to happen.
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Number one I think we should impose a fee or a tax on the transportation of trash per mile.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an orderly world system with economies truly open to international trade.
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I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.
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I was a real loner in high school, even though people assume I was the head cheerleader.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.
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The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.
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It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.
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I went to see Dad in hospital after he had gone through one particularly grueling operation. I walked into the room where he was recovering, and he was sitting up in a chair, wearing his shirt and tie. That was after eight hours of surgery. I found that so moving.
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Those who can't give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.
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Am I learning how to use my Bible? The way to become complete for the Master’s service is to be well soaked in the Bible; some of us only exploit certain passages. Our Lord wants to give us continuous instruction out of His word; continuous instruction turns hearers into disciples.
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I think everybody is covering their posteriors with the Enron scandal and it was very convenient that Sept. 11 came along to deflect the fact that they should never have been in the White House in the first place. What happened in the election was completely corrupt.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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That which you give to another will become your own sustenance; if you light a lamp for another, your own way will be lit.
