Daisaku Ikeda Quotes
Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer economy - the mad rush for ownership and consumption - to a constructive economy where all human beings can participate in the act of creating lasting worth.
Quotes to Explore
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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In our league, it comes right down to the end.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.
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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
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I have two tutors - a maths tutor and another tutor who does all the other subjects. It is part of the deal with myself; I really want to finish school. I like learning and education, and I think it is really important.
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What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
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I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.
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I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
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If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.
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Seasonality in winter doesn't have to mean sleep-inducing, stew-like, starchy casseroles.
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
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Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory importance.
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Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer economy - the mad rush for ownership and consumption - to a constructive economy where all human beings can participate in the act of creating lasting worth.
