Daisaku Ikeda Quotes
Take heart, and do not let disappointment or shame stop you from moving forward. The true outcome of life is only apparent at the very end.
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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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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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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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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the present.
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I've been in many auditions thinking, 'God, do I have to take my shirt off?'
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I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.
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During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.
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Take heart, and do not let disappointment or shame stop you from moving forward. The true outcome of life is only apparent at the very end.
