Yamamoto Tsunetomo Quotes
A faultless person is one who withdraws from affairs. This must be done with strength.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
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I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a 'Jurassic Park.'
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I have always been interested in abandoned cars. I can't tell you how many times I've been in a car, driving, and there's a car sitting in a pasture, totally abandoned. Or on the edge of a creek or something. I always wonder: why did somebody park it in the pasture and leave?
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Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.
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I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.
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If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your job. You've evoked something.
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When I was 17 I interned at a school, and it was the most exhausting, difficult thing I've ever done, with all these screaming children.
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A faultless person is one who withdraws from affairs. This must be done with strength.
