Daisaku Ikeda Quotes
Envying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.
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From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.
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All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
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There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.
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The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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The rush to California, for instance, and the attitude, not merely of merchants, but of philosophers and prophets, so called, in relation to it, reflect the greatest disgrace on mankind. That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society!
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Envying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.
