Daisaku Ikeda Quotes
Dig beneath your feet, there you will find a spring. The place where you are now is crucial. Never try to avoid that which you must do.
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
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I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'
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There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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I do think it's possible to change for the better.
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We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.
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Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.
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I don't program or code or anything like that.
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I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.
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Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
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No single person designed the whole Taj Mahal complex. The buildings were the work of many people – architects, engineers, artists, calligraphers, and Shah Jahan himself.
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Are we disheartened by the breakup of the family? Nobody who ever met my family is.
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When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.
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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
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In the inescapable flux, there is something that abides; in the overwhelming permanence, there is an element that escapes into flux. Permanence can be snatched only out of flux; and the passing moment can find its adequate intensity only by its submission to permanence.
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Smile O voluptuous coolbreathed earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset! Earth of the mountains misty-topt! Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue! Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river! Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake! Far-swooping elbowed earth! Rich apple-blossomed earth! Smile, for your lover comes!
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Sir, I just think that's it's fucking brilliant that you somehow managed to tie Chuck Norris, Chewbacca the Wookie, and Jesus Christ together.
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I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.
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Alas! that every lovely thingLives only but for withering,-That spring rainbows and summer shineEnd but in autumn's pale decline.
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Dig beneath your feet, there you will find a spring. The place where you are now is crucial. Never try to avoid that which you must do.
