Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
I won't be a carer any more come the end of the year, and though I've got a lot out of it, I have to admit I'll welcome the chance to rest.
Quotes to Explore
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If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.
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I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.
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In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
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I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job.
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The greatest power is often simple patience.
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Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
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Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin and on through Bessie Smith.
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The whole Land of Israel is a single bloc. There are those who say we can build inside the settlement blocs, and others who say we may not be able to hold onto the towns outside the blocs. I have come to tell you what the Arabs already know - that the Land of Israel is one bloc.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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My father was this huge, influential intellectual in the '60s and '70s. He was one of the main players in the cultural discussion in Sweden, the editor of papers.
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There's so much pressure on women to have it all together. There's always this 'next, next, next.' I hope Glossier encourages women to be O.K. wherever you are. Just, everyone, relax!
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In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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I won't be a carer any more come the end of the year, and though I've got a lot out of it, I have to admit I'll welcome the chance to rest.
