Shinran Buddhism Quotes & Sayings

I don't live in L.A. on purpose because I don't wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people, in order to inform what I'm doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism. — Alan Arkin

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how. — G.H. Hardy

Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks. — Marvin Minsky

Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of a vortex of the business. It's such a seismic shift really. — Arthur Fogel

There is no way to imagine what it feels like to be shot at. I will never be with him when he is the most scared. — Melissa Seligman

Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped. — Thomas Sowell

That's why we all play the game. You want to be a player; you want to be out there to play. — Jimmy Garoppolo

An epic simplicity — Yann Martel

I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party. — Michael Foot

Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true? Where does the proof use the hypothesis? — Paul Halmos

I don't really talk about my process very much, because I feel like if I give something away, it might not come back. — Meryl Streep

The Olympians were a reminder that there was always someone better than you, so you shouldn't get a big head. — Rick Riordan

Health, wealth, reputation, and status are all mere ingredients of happiness. The key to true well-being is being able to manage them capably. — Kentetsu Takamori