Jake Shimabukuro Quotes
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I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.
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I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
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The only thing I did well was learn how to make money.
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The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context.
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While all the pomp and circumstance of war animated others, it only saddened me; and all of past reflection, all of future dread, made the whole grandeur of the martial scene, and all the delusive seduction of martial music, fill my eyes frequently with tears.
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You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.
