Daisaku Ikeda Quotes
Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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I will say the scope of the 'Supergirl' pilot was incredible. I've personally never been involved in something with such a huge production value and scope.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.
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I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
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I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.
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If you adopt the body language of a power player, it will greatly facilitate your ability to be a power player.
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There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle.
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The insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.
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Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
