Chiaki Kuriyama Quotes

I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.

Chiaki Kuriyama

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• I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Different
  • Movies
  • Choose

• My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.

  Gail Devers
  • People
  • Kids
  • Running

• The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Right
  • Intelligence

• To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.

  

  Ovid
  • Feel
  • Cure
  • One Thing

• I really love all types of music. I'm really open to that. I really love Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake and some James Taylor and Elton John stuff.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Music
  • Love
  • Open

• To learn something new every day is still exciting!

  

  Ed Koch
  • Day
  • Learn
  • Everyday

• I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex – not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • Life
  • True
  • Sex

• My white counterparts are always pushing the line, and they are fearless, so why can't I do that, too?

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Why
  • Always
  • White

• If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Different
  • Young
  • Islam

• I put castor oil in my eyebrows. And I also tint my eyebrows when I get them cleaned up. That way, I don't have to be constantly filling them in, because I'm lazy.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Up
  • Way
  • Lazy

• Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • Business
  • New

• Ask the world to reveal its quietude - not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • World
  • True
  • Silence

• You are not what you seem.So many people have said that that I'm beginning to think that's precisely how I do seem. What is it I seem to be that you have now discovered that I'm not?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Beginning

• The need to impress others causes half the world's woes. Don't add to them. Be real, not impressive.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • World
  • Real

• I see at last that all the knowledgeI wrung from the darkness - that the darkness flung me -Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darknessAnd we call it wisdom. It is pain.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Pain
  • Wisdom
  • Ignorance

• Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.

  

  Kin Hubbard

• Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.

  

  John Petrucci
  • Music
  • Connection
  • Communication

• I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic.

  

  Christopher Atkins
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Cool

• The people are asleep; they remain indifferent. They forge their own chains and do the bidding of their masters to crucify their Christs. (p. 304)

  

  Emma Goldman
  • People

• I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.

  

  Chiaki Kuriyama