Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

This is all strictly against regulations, of course, and Marie-Claude should never have asked you in. And naturally, I should have turned you out the second I knew you were here. But Marie-Claude doesn't care much for their regulations these days, and I must say, neither do I.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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• I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Years
  • Doing
  • New York

• I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Education
  • Finish
  • Homeless

• Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Chance
  • Wise
  • Luck

• Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Money
  • You
  • Period

• Technology is changing the way we interact as humans.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Way
  • Technology
  • Changing

• For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Different
  • Same
  • Clothes

• I think the Republican Party should be a pro-life party. I am pro-life. I do not apologize for that. On the flip side of that coin, the Republican Party has been big enough to allow pro-choice advocates to be heard.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Party
  • Republican
  • Pro-life

• To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Myself
  • Planning
  • Economic

• I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Culture
  • Small
  • Support

• Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Responsibility
  • Anger

• I personally don't believe in aliens. But, I do believe that there is something out there that is accountable for all these mysterious things that are going on: I think it is a spiritual thing not a material thing.

  

  J. T. Walsh
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Spiritual

• The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Up
  • Politics
  • End

• How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men

• I never need to go far if I need a reminder of how important Medicare and Social Security are to Missouri's seniors. My mom, Betty Anne, is one of millions for whom these services provide a reliable safety net. Across the country, these protections are an integral part of sustaining millions of seniors' health and dignity.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Important
  • Country
  • Health

• The life of a congressional spouse is harder than the life of the member. They do all the work and get none of the recognition.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Life
  • Work

• Oatmeal tastes so good on its own, you don't even need to add sugar.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • Good

• Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection.

  

  Martin Fleischmann
  • Time

• I tell ya, my wife's a lousy cook. After dinner, I don't brush my teeth. I count them.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Wife
  • My Wife
  • Cook

• Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

  

  Maria Edgeworth
  • Remember

• We are in a technological age, and 'Social Music' aims to reflect that spirit of advancement, collaboration and connectivity while still remaining 'human.' And Stay Human, then, is a reminder of what connects us all. It's our mantra.

  

  Jon Batiste
  • Music
  • Age
  • Collaboration

• Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.

  

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson
  • Metaphor
  • Sisterhood
  • Synonym

• This is all strictly against regulations, of course, and Marie-Claude should never have asked you in. And naturally, I should have turned you out the second I knew you were here. But Marie-Claude doesn't care much for their regulations these days, and I must say, neither do I.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro