Daisaku Ikeda Quotes
I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.
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The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
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I could not disobey the will of the Catalan parliament.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.
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Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star.
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Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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Good design is good business.
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My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.
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You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.
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I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.
