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?

Nyogen Senzaki

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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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• 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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• Art matters.

  

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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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• 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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• Live as on a mountain. ...Let men see, let them know a real man who lives according to nature. If they cannot endure him, let them kill him. For that is better than to live thus.

  

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• My God, I have almost never believed in you, and yet I have always loved you.

  

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• The way I see it, any attention I get, for whatever reason, just draws more eyes to the causes that I believe in.

  

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• I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

  

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• I was in Boots buying contact lens solution, and my mobile went off. It was Jay-Z's partner at Roc Nation asking me what I was up to. He asked if I'd been to America, and I said, 'No.' Then he said, 'I'm putting you on a flight to New York tomorrow.'

  

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• Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

  

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• You want me to tell you what my husband thinks? My husband is not secretary of state; I am. If you want my opinion, I will tell you my opinion. I am not going to be channeling my husband.

  

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• The Army is into every business in this country. Except hairdressing.

  

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• The world outside Twitter was great. I read books. I reconnected with people I knew from real life and met them for drinks in person. Then I drifted back on to Twitter.

  

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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?

  

  Nyogen Senzaki
  • Opinion
  • Empty
  • Speculation