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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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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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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If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.
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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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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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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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I had just done a movie called 'How to Beat the High Cost of Living,' and it didn't get a good review. And the same people sent me the script for 'Airplane!' for the Robert Hays part. I read it, and there were a lot of plays on words, and I said, 'I don't like this kind of comedy.'
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I struggled with depression when I was in high school, and I remember thinking that if I got a record deal and got a hit song, that it would solve all those problems for me.
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Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it.
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I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.
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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.
