Daisaku Ikeda Quotes
There’s no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. The important thing is what seeds we are sowing now for the future.
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
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Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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I pick the wrong kinds of guys, but they're so hot.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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Some biometric methods can't be taken from a person from afar without his or her agreement.
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We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.
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I think people are much more concerned about money now. There aren't the big advances of the past. You feel the sense of nervousness about the book industry. It's not like before. Not that I knew very much about what it was like because I was a newcomer to it, but I get that feeling that people are more conservative in their book choices and what they are going to publish and what's a sure sell. As opposed to - just like in the economy - a sense of luxury and sense of risk taking ten years ago.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
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There’s no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. The important thing is what seeds we are sowing now for the future.
