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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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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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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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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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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I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.
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Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.
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You make yourself do the physical aspects for a Christopher Nolan film!
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My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.
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We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away.
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I'm having the time of my life and I'm glad people are enjoy it.
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I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.
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And through it all she offers me protection, a lot of love and affection whether I'm right or wrong. And down the waterfall where ever it may take me I know that life won't break me when I come to call, she won't forsake me I'm loving angels instead.
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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.
