Daisaku Ikeda Quotes
An attitude of compassion does not mean looking down on someone, pitying them in their misery. Compassion is based on respect. We discuss life as equals, learn from each other and strive together to improve our lives.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.
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If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
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The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about the concept of human society. It is not about nature or scientific ecology; it is about environmentalism, about one - recently born - dirigistic and collectivistic ideology, which goes against freedom and free markets.
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...an intellectual instinct which extracts the essence from the phenomena of life, as a bee sucks honey from a flower. In addition to study and reflections, life itself serves as a source.
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I think life is a big game we play.
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Karl Lagerfeld never touched a pair of scissors in his life.
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The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.
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An attitude of compassion does not mean looking down on someone, pitying them in their misery. Compassion is based on respect. We discuss life as equals, learn from each other and strive together to improve our lives.
