Daisaku Ikeda Quotes
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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When a salesperson truly cares about you, trust forms, and you're more likely to buy, come back for repeat business, and refer new customers.
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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
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One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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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 don't worry about the things I can't change.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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The fold is that place where He keeps His flock shut behind the hurdles of the Ten Commandments. Every now and then, a sheep leaps one of these hurdles or pushes his way between them and runs away into forbidden pastures. Then the Good Shepherd goes after the erring sheep and brings it back.
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Sometimes you design a shoe, and you think this one is a winner, but you never know when something will be such a crazy phenomenon.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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I had managed to scare even the monsters, and when you can scare monsters, you can be sure you've become one yourself.
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As cheesy and melodramatic as it might sound, love excites me more than anything... in all its forms.
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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
