Kenzaburo Oe Quotes
The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.
Kenzaburo Oe
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
Feist
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
Odeya Rush
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
Irwin Redlener
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So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.
Vicente Fox
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
Barry Gibb
Bee Gees
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
V. S. Naipaul
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When I was little, I think that I wanted Superman to be my boyfriend.
Pauley Perrette
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We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.
Katherine Paterson
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I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well.
Carly Rae Jepsen
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Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from woopin' your behind.
Stevie Wonder
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The 20th Century was a bloodbath, and for all the frustrations and failures of the project to unify Europe, the last five decades have been periods of unprecedented peace, growth, and prosperity in Europe.
Barack Obama
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The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.
Kenzaburo Oe