Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.
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It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
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The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
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It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.
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I'm with people all the time so I often go away on my own.
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There's only one life. There's no repeats. You only get one life, and you gotta take advantage of it.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open.
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I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world.
