Daisaku Ikeda Quotes
You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.
Quotes to Explore
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
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I've been training quite hard.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.
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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
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I worry about the things I can affect, and the things I have no control over I move by.
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The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.
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The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.
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I remember myself as an inept girl who did not know how and what to do in her life.
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Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.
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You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.
