Yamamoto Tsunetomo Quotes
Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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I don't like controversy.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.
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Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop, and it's freed me to pursue ideas and techniques I wouldn't have otherwise attempted. Since I get to take an assignment from concept to final execution, I have more freedom in my idea-making processes.
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To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
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I give away thousands of paintings for free.
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Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative.
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Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.
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I don't want people to think of me as sexy.
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O bitter is it to abide In weariness alway: At dawn to sigh for eventide, At eventide for day. Thy noon hath fled: thy sun hath shone: The brightness of thy day is gone: What need to lag and linger on Till life be cold and gray?
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If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.
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Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.
