Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

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• I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Work
  • Want
  • Try

• I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Value
  • Things
  • Human

• But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Job
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• So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.

  

  Vanessa Brown
  • Music
  • Film
  • Something

• George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique.

  

  Gary Wright
  • People
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  • Music

• Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.

  

  Warren G
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• Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
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• People don't know how to behave in public anymore.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Know
  • Public

• I don't think that technology is going to allow for greater subjugation of people. I think it's gonna give them more freedom.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Technology

• I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Night
  • Hate
  • Makeup

• Government should stand aside and let the business community prosper instead of imposing new regulations that will only stifle growth and limit access to capital.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Community
  • Growth

• Allen Iverson was the Tupac of basketball; he was a true revolutionary.

  

  Fat Joe
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• My show in Egypt was called, 'The Show,' or, 'Al Bernameg' in Arabic. Basically, it was a political satire show. It started on Internet by three, four-minute episodes, and then it evolved into a live show in a theater, which was something that was unprecedented in the Arab world.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • World
  • Live
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• On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
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• I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
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• I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun.

  

  Nate Diaz
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• A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I asked each one of them to make out with me and their reactions varied from excitable to horrified.

  

  Rachel Perry
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• Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Food
  • Animals
  • Vegetables

• Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Nature
  • Moments

• The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.

  

  Ernestine Rose
  • Women
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• Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get.

  

  Angie Everhart

• I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro