Yamamoto Tsunetomo Quotes
Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
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I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
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Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
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The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.
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Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.
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I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.
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Women artists are still treated differently from men.
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But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
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And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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I have a lot of respect for Eminem and Rihanna. They are both very real in their music.
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I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
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The atmosphere is great for people - it allows us to survive - but it's a real headache for astronomers.
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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.
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The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
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You can't stop demographics. And show me a fence that ever worked. It didn't work at Hadrian's Wall. The Great Wall of China didn't work. The Berlin Wall.
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Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.
