"Everything seems simpler from a distance."

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Source : Gail Tsukiyama (2007). “The Street of a Thousand Blossoms”, p.379, Macmillan

Gail Tsukiyama

#Distance Quotes

“I was in love many times. This is very good for a woman.”
“PeaceÂ… starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.”
“Very powerless people [snickers] He's such a minority, I mean, you know Please, what are you kidding? I'm telling you that everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart, and to imply that somehow they, the people in this country who are Jewish, are an oppressed minority? Yeah.”

Source : "Rick Sanchez fired by CNN after comments about Jews and Jon Stewart" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2010.
“I'm very resilient. The only thing I'm missing right now are abs.”
“I’d like every man who doesn’t call himself a feminist to explain to the women in his life why he doesn’t believe in equality for women.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers.”
“One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.”
“Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.”

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