"I tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time."
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"A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready."
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"What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation."
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"The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task."
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"The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized."
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"Although the assembly of the shots is responsible for the structure of the film, it does not, as is generally assumed, create its rhythm; the distinct time running through the shots makes the rhythm of the picture, and the rhythm is determined not by the length of edited pieces, but by the pressure of the time that runs through them. The pieces that 'won't edit', that can't be properly joined, are those which record a radically different kind of time"
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"Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their plowing of the soil. The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight like the strings on a double-bass, and a fly settles on his flanks and tickles and buzzes. And what does the fly buzz about? It scarcely knows itself; simply because it is restless and wants to proclaim: 'Look, I too am living on the earth. See, I can buzz, too, buzz about anything.'"
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"What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?"
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"A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality."
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"Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers."
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"He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying."
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"Everybody's got a past. The past does not equal the future unless you live there."
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"Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission."
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"No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves."
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"This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. But that does not mean that it is a wrong thing to do."
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"The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius."
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"Reincarnation, at least as I conceive it, does not nullify what we know about evolution and genetics. It suggests, however, that there may be two streams of evolution -- the biological one and a personal one -- and that during terrestrial lives these streams may interact."
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"What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?"
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"... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism."
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"A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain."
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