Jake Shimabukuro Quotes
When you play guitar and strum, you're using biceps and triceps to move up and down. I realized you could just turn your wrist, your forearm, using smaller muscles in your arm that are much more efficient and much quicker.
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
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I've got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod, that's nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right I'm a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff.
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It was Homaira and me against the world. ... In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
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I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.
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At times he could be very critical. He didn't like prints on me. He didn't like stripes. He didn't like boldness. He said I was petite and that was taking away from my looks.
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Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.
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'When Marnie Was There' was the first animated film I've ever done.
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When you play guitar and strum, you're using biceps and triceps to move up and down. I realized you could just turn your wrist, your forearm, using smaller muscles in your arm that are much more efficient and much quicker.
