Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.Kazuo Ishiguro
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
Ted Cruz -
All the terrorists are basically migrants.
Viktor Orban -
Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
Eddy Cue -
My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
Harrison Ford -
Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
Yishan Wong -
Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
Kaitlin Olson
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
Gary Johnson -
Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.
J. August Richards -
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye -
If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
Damian McGinty -
The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.
Orison Swett Marden
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
Carla Gugino -
When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.
Vijay Kumar -
You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
Kate McKinnon -
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
Natasha Trethewey -
Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.
Dan Buettner -
I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
Naguib Mahfouz
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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
Ai Weiwei -
Immigration is important. We're a nation of immigrants.
Keith Kellogg -
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Samuel Butler -
I remember telling people I booked this job; they were like, 'What is it called?' I was like, 'Peaky Blinders,' and they were like, 'What?' It sounds ridiculous, but I like it because there's an instant intrigue about the name.
Annabelle Wallis -
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
Kazuo Ishiguro