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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Then we tried to come up with ideas for the sketches, and then, when we actually shot the movie, we really just sat down - never previewed the movie - we just really winged it.
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Governments do not have the answers - indeed, quite the reversal. A lot of times, they not only do not have the answers, but they themselves are the problem. If we are committed to helping our world's children, then we must begin to create solutions from the bottom up.
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“...to be Irish is to know the world will break your heart before you are thirty.”
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The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
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I'm not a career kind of person. When I saw new music, new trends coming in, I didn't see any place for me. And I didn't think about it as a career loss, because I was married - I have a great- grandchild now. The low points were when I lost people that I really cared about.
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You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.
