Daisaku Ikeda Quotes
Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
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Women drive box office.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.
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In America, I can just be glamorous, which is lovely. People are happy and accepting of exactly what it is I do.
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There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.
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There are in life such confluences of circumstances that render the reproach that we are not Voltaires most inopportune.
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Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.
