Brad Warner Quotes
Well it's always been an interesting area for me. In referencing something I just reread from Dogen it says, "Enlightenment doesn't break the person anymore than the reflection breaks the water" and Suzuki in his commentary is saying you don't lose your personality once you acquire some sort of Buddhist understanding.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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I'm very unorganized.
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.
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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were – Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter.
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As image and apprehension are in an organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.
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Dennis Martinez's perfect game at Dodger Stadium, July 28, 1991, based off of video on mlb.com
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Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
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Singing and dancing are the greatest emotional outlets you can have.
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Change is hard but inevitable.
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Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly abode in jail in 1910, two or three years after my birth. Uncle Ajit Singh is leading the life of an exile in foreign countries.
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I'm quite calm when all is well.
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When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact.
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I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
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Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.
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I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more.
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Well it's always been an interesting area for me. In referencing something I just reread from Dogen it says, "Enlightenment doesn't break the person anymore than the reflection breaks the water" and Suzuki in his commentary is saying you don't lose your personality once you acquire some sort of Buddhist understanding.
