Jake Shimabukuro Quotes
Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in popular culture, but there are certainly pop stars that play uke - George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Taylor Swift, Train, and Paul McCartney.
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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You won't see me at a microphone singing and tapping my foot. I spend a lot of money on sets, costumes and sound. I believe people deserve a show. I'm a singer, musician, dancer. I work hard, and I'm soaking wet when I come off.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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I love love stories, no matter how dark.
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.
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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
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We are going to position ourselves as a world-class financial institution. We want to do things that are comparable to the best in the world. At the same time, we want to have very strong human qualities.
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Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.
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Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
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I'm very passionate.
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I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.
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Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.
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At the same time, the daughters, in adulthood, must also make the effort to really know their mothers—which many daughters do not—in order to understand what forces shaped those mothers. These daughters need to discover what torment may have unwittingly informed their mothers’ parental choices, and to see their mothers as composites of strengths and weaknesses, rather than as all good or all bad.
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When you make successful movies, everyone on set takes care of you, everybody is so nice and you disconnect from reality.
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Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in popular culture, but there are certainly pop stars that play uke - George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Taylor Swift, Train, and Paul McCartney.
