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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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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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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First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition.
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I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
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If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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He now set down all the communications apparatus, rose stiffly from the chair and momentarily stood facing the misty, immobile, icebound shape of Joe Chip resting within its transparent plastic casket. Upright and silent, as it would be for the rest of eternity.
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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.
