Daisaku Ikeda Quotes
The heart is what is important." There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling.
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it's just too negative.
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Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been added in almost every conceivable category that there are no more free passes on just getting there first. I think there are greater expectations for audience participation, the kind of participation that makes a real impact in a show's community.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.
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Iraq has WMDs. It is not something we think, it is something we know. Iraq has itself admitted that it has had mustard gas, nerve gas, anthrax, but Saddam won't disclose. He won't tell us where and how these weapons have been destroyed. We know this from the UN inspectors, so there is no doubt in my mind.
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I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music.
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Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think about many things mechanically, but you will get nothing from it.
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The heart is what is important." There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling.
