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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Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.
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It is important to remind young people that peace is the only victory.
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What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents.
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The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.
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I think my favorite thing is songwriting.
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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.
