Daisaku Ikeda Quotes
It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.
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You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.
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If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.
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Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.
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I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
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The only way that you can ever continue to have a career and have success and have hits is if you are honest to yourself in the same way that you were in the beginning.
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I move around, like a true Kazakh nomad.
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I'd say I am more of a comfort person. I have Adidas sneakers that are my favorite thing on the planet. Adidas high tops with black jeans and a fur hat that I love wearing. I love vintage shopping.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.
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I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.
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Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar, And so I am: then crushing penury Persuades me I was better when a king; Then am I king'd again: and by and by Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke, And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be, Nor I nor any man that but man is With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased With being nothing.
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I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
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The spirt of 1916 is as relevant and inspiring today as it was a century ago.
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I have said this many times in the past and will say it many times in the future I am sure: some people need to find a different hobby, because whatever they are here for, it is not to help build an encyclopedia.
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It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.
