Daisaku Ikeda Quotes
Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle.
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.
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The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.
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For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.
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When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.
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Life is full of inspiration, far more than I'll ever get to write about.
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Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.
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Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle.
