Yamamoto Tsunetomo Quotes
It is better not to become acquainted with men about whom you have formerly had doubts. No matter what you do, they will be people by whom you will be tripped up or taken in.

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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.
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In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.
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I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.
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The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
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I just take every script as it comes along and take it from there.
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I think work really is a life saver, because it carries you forward, which is good.
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Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.
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Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.
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We don't have a free market in health care. We need to connect customers up with the cost of care. And to drive innovation that way.
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It is better not to become acquainted with men about whom you have formerly had doubts. No matter what you do, they will be people by whom you will be tripped up or taken in.