Daisaku Ikeda Quotes
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
Rand Paul -
I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
Rachel Brosnahan -
My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
Jack Davenport -
So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
Warren Farrell -
I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
Valerie Plame -
To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
Jack Keane
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
Jackie Evancho -
When I'm in the studio, I'm strictly thinking about the beats, the rhymes and the song. The decision I make once the songs are created, and there's a barcode put on the package, and I'm out there in the street selling it, those decisions as a businessman are different than the creative decisions you make.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
Dan Gable -
The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
Damien Rice -
My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
Tate Donovan -
The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.
Karen Duffy
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
Talulah Riley -
The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.
Lamar Odom -
Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
Zachary Quinto -
The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Napoleon Hill
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My first love of jazz came from joining the Chilliwack Middle School band - it was like an 18-piece jazz band, and I wanted to join just because the older kids looked like they were having so much fun.
Bria Skonberg -
No one ever recognises me. Everyone says, 'You don't look like your pictures.'
Alison Goldfrapp -
A civil war occurring in a country, where foreigners reside and carry on trade under treaty stipulations is necessarily fruitful of complaints of the violation of neutral rights. All such collisions tend to excite misapprehensions, and possibly to produce mutual reclamations between nations which have a common interest in preserving peace and friendship.
Abraham Lincoln -
You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.
Fred Rogers -
When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
Daisaku Ikeda