Jake Shimabukuro Quotes
There's something about the ukulele that just makes you smile. It makes you let your guard down. It brings out the child in all of us.
Quotes to Explore
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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When it comes to relationships, I think I'm pretty experienced - you'd be surprised.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.
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I think you try to improve every season and every game and be prepared about certain defensemen you're playing against, certain ways to find open ice.
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There are Tea Parties, and I would say plural, in California.
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Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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I inherited them, so I got it like that. But I hear you can actually get dimples for a certain price if you really want them. I was getting my nails done once, and this lady asked me, 'Are those real? In my country, they pay a lot of money for those.' And I was like, 'Really?' I think she was from Malaysia.
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I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.
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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.
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I don't smile much, and I never laugh. It's just something that's in me. If you'd been through what I've been through, you wouldn't be smiling, either.
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There's something about the ukulele that just makes you smile. It makes you let your guard down. It brings out the child in all of us.
