Daisaku Ikeda Quotes
A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
 
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	I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.   
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	Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.   
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	My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.   
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	In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.   
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	The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.   
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	I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.   
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	It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.   
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	I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.   
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	I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.   
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	It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.   
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	I like being unconventional.   
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	I just don't think men fancy me.   
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	There are definitely - there is definitely an element of Donald Trump's support that has its basis in racism or xenophobia. But a lot of these folks are just really hardworking people who are struggling in really important ways.   
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	I need this wild life, this freedom.   
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	I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.   
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	Im not your biggest girly girl.   
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	Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.   
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	In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.   
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	A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. And that’s a problem because privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.   
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	I can't tell you some of the things I did as a teenager, but some folks didn't give up on me.   
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	Once I went to film school, I realized that film directing was actually much better than theater directing, because you kind of get to stay in control of it all the way through. You don't relinquish the piece to the actors like you have to in theater; you stay in control through the very end.   
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	There are black marriages that are still going strong 40 years later. You hear so many myths that there aren't any people making it, but there are. As long as there are some, there's hope.   
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	A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					