Yamamoto Tsunetomo Quotes
If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.
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In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
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I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.
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People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
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Of all the options I had got, I think whatever films I have chosen to do are best.
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One of the themes of 'The Longest War,' my book, which came out before the Arab spring happened, was how al-Qaida and bin Laden was losing the war of ideas in the Muslim world, not because the United States was winning them, but because al-Qaida was simply losing them.
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If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat.
