Nyogen Senzaki Quotes
Friends in the Dharma, be satisfied with your own heads. Do not put any false heads above your own. Then, minute after minute, watch your step closely.
Quotes to Explore
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I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
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I have written to Israel's friends around the world, including the U.S. Congress and the E.U., and asked them to make funding for the United Nations dependent on ending blatant discrimination against Israel at the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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I really miss the Australian lifestyle and being around my friends and family.
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I'm not part of the friends-and-family club; I'm not part of the pay-to-play club; I'm not looking to get re-elected. I'm not looking to go to another office and fill my campaign coffers. I don't need any friends in Albany except the people of the state.
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Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social.
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I can't really have any friends. It's sad, really. It's lonely. But that's how I am.
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The only time I eat alone is if I'm really tired or upset about something or on the phone to one of my friends, when it's easier to be alone. But you can't be too wrapped up in yourself... it starts making you look a little bit prima donna.
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Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it.
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I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge that our foreign friends are welcome to join in our endeavor to develop the resources of our country.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.
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Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
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I'm lucky in that I have close friends and family and my agent to advise me.
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For me, the kitchen is the most special room in the house. It's a place for adventure - not drudgery, but discovery, sharing and showing off with friends, trying new ideas.
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A lot of my friends are in Australia, and it's definitely nice to get back there.
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True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around you.
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In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity, an institution which is damned ill-suited to a being who with his usual modesty likes to regard himself as the 'image' of God.
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The smiling portrait of you is still hanging on my frowning wall.
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When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.
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If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.
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Friends in the Dharma, be satisfied with your own heads. Do not put any false heads above your own. Then, minute after minute, watch your step closely.
