Yamamoto Tsunetomo Quotes
Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.

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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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I'm totally comfortable with myself.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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Allowing adult children who live at home who are in between jobs to stay on their parents' health care, I think that's a lot of Republican support for that, with or without Obamacare.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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I love the smell of diapers; I even like when they're wet and you smell them all warm like a baked good. I love the smell of Balmex. Love it.
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Words do have a limited range of meaning, and no interpretation that goes beyond that range is permissible.
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Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good?
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It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuos intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.