Daisaku Ikeda Quotes
In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.
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Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.
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I'll fall.' 'You wont fall.' 'I'll fall. I'll fall and I'll die.' As I said it, I could see it happening. The foot stepping on air, pulling the rest of my body with it, tree limbs breaking as I plummeted down. 'No,' he said, his voice assured, 'You'd never do that to me.
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Partying is not a sane way to spend money, but it's fun. When we were young, we did not have a lot of money at all, so I thought, 'If I ever get rich, I'm not going to become one of those boring rich people who doesn't spend money.'
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How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history; they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
