Daisaku Ikeda Quotes
If you summon your courage to challenge something, you’ll never be left with regret. How sad it is to spend your life wishing, “If only I’d had a little more courage.” Whatever the outcome may be, the important thing is to step forward on the path that you believe is right.
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My hunger is always there.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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I have one desire: That is to have a principle-based, member-driven Congress. Period. That's what I want.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.
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For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.
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None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.
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We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.
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When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!
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If you summon your courage to challenge something, you’ll never be left with regret. How sad it is to spend your life wishing, “If only I’d had a little more courage.” Whatever the outcome may be, the important thing is to step forward on the path that you believe is right.
