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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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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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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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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I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern.
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People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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When I was modeling in Japan, I could blend in a little because of my hair, but my roommates with blonde hair got harassed. People would touch their hair and grope them in the subway. Actually, a lot of groping happens in the subway in Japan, but that's probably true of subways everywhere.
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What a judgment upon the living, if it is true, as has been maintained, that what dies has never existed!
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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.
