Yamamoto Tsunetomo Quotes
The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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People are people, and I get a bit annoyed that the music business only focuses in on the big metropolises. I find that people that don't live in big cities are just as likely to enjoy music as people that do live in big cities.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture medium available. I don't think it always will be. The digital image will get better, and it will eventually surpass the quality of the film image, but it isn't there yet.
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The art of biography seems to have fallen on evil times in England. … With us, the most delicate and humane of all the branches of the art of writing has been relegated to the journeymen of letters; we do not reflect that it is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.
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The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.
