Kenzaburo Oe Quotes

After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.

Kenzaburo Oe

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• I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Book
  • Girl
  • Reading

• Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if they did so, I would refuse immediately.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Work
  • Me
  • India

• All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

  

  Sallust
  • Opinion
  • Friendship
  • Anger

• I'll be kicked out before I rust out.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Before
  • Out
  • Rust

• Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Today
  • Energy
  • Youth

• Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Time
  • Game
  • Green

• Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Up
  • Live
  • America

• In my world, of course, it don't matter. You could be a gangster with a dress, you could be a gangster with baggy pants.

  

  Young Thug
  • World
  • Dress
  • Gangster

• I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • School
  • High
  • Singing

• I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it was very hard, so I was looking after my sister, cooking and cleaning, and she had four jobs.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • She
  • Mother
  • Sister

• You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Heart
  • Eyes
  • Movies

• In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme 'Hunger in America.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Good
  • America
  • Age

• I've been blessed; I've been getting so many amazing opportunities because of the UFC. I know there are going to be haters no matter how successful I am, and I just have to be thankful for all the blessings that I have because all of it can be over before you know it.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Amazing
  • Blessed
  • Thankful

• If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Good
  • God
  • Believe

• I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Different
  • Movies

• It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part because Joseph Smith believed in polygamy.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Years
  • Compare
  • Useful

• Why can't I beat AJ Styles? I beat AJ Styles in the past before.

  

  Jinder Mahal
  • Why
  • Past

• I think swagger's a confidence. It's a confidence of you knowing that you work hard for your success. A lot of times, you can't develop swagger if you haven't worked hard to succeed.

  

  Amar'e Stoudemire
  • Work
  • Success
  • Confidence

• On a personal note, reaching the World Cup would be something that no one could ever take away from me.

  

  Diego Godin
  • World

• Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Love
  • Know
  • Solitude

• We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful.

  

  Plutarch
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Improvement

• After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.

  

  Kenzaburo Oe