Nyogen Senzaki Quotes
Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?
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More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.
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Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.
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If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.
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I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.
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During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake. One of them was the National Republican Convention in San Francisco, which produced the greatest disaster the Republican Party has ever known - Nominee Barry Goldwater.
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Art matters.
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People think floating should be the easiest and happiest time for a company, but it's actually really hard. We were meant to think we'd won - we'd gone public and could go on to new things. But we were only just getting started.
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We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.
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Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
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Unfortunately for the modern dramatist, during the past century and a half the public realm has been less and less of a realm where human deeds are done, and more and more of a realm of mere human behavior. The contemporary dramatist has lost his natural subject.
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I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.
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One of the smartest things Kickstarter has done, in my opinion, is give people a great shopping experience related to the arts, that funds the arts. In essence, they've gotten people to pay $200 for a t-shirt plus the feeling of participation in another artist's endeavor.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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If I've gotten to a point where people want to see something because I'm in it, I'm grateful and humbled. But having an awareness of that doesn't help me do what I need to do, I think.
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I was a pretty independent kid. I thought maybe I'd be a veterinarian or an environmental lawyer.
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Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?
