Jake Shimabukuro Quotes
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.
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I have no political aspirations. That's it.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
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You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
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I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.
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My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.
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I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know what they're like. They are in love with language. They're obsessed with it. Even if their thoughts aren't more special than anybody else's, they have a way of putting them into words that makes them sensational.
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Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.
