Daisaku Ikeda Quotes
A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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I don't like to direct myself.
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I'm ready for a different America.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
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Life has its trade-offs. As you age, you lose things like teeth and the ability to play in the ball pit at fast-food restaurants, and you gain things like experience and employer-based health insurance.
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You can just go to a magic shop or magic builder and buy what most magicians do, but that's not what I'm about. With 'Mindfreak' on television and 'Believe' live, I want to bring things that people have never seen before. That process is very difficult. It's very challenging, and you never know how long it's going to take - months or years.
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If a voter initiative can deny gay people access to traditional representative, democratic processes, then in California, any other small, historically disadvantaged minority group can also be denied the right of representative.
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I think life has a way of kicking you in the pants too, but you have to pick up and move ahead, and it certainly helps if you have a good partner in life.
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I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.
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A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.
