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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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 have said that, in a sense, the parasites were a 'shadow' of man's cowardice and passivity. Their strength could increase in an atmosphere of defeat and panic, for it fed on human fear. In that case, the best way to combat them was to change the atmosphere to one of strength and purpose.
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Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?
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In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.
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I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.
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From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
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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?
