Daisaku Ikeda Quotes
Happiness does not exist as an isolated quality, nor does it conform to a single fixed pattern. Happiness is something that breathes and lives in the relationships between one person and another.
Quotes to Explore
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Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
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Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
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Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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You must engage at the level of people's higher order values, and in doing so, you can engage them in a meaningful way on a large number of issues.
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The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool.
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Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace.
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So much of existence is so boring. To have little moments of stupidity is always welcome.
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History is the life of nations and of humanity. To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible.
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Happiness does not exist as an isolated quality, nor does it conform to a single fixed pattern. Happiness is something that breathes and lives in the relationships between one person and another.
