Masashi Kishimoto Quotes
I didn't think much about foreign readers when I began 'Naruto,' but I knew that many of the artists who influenced me had already been accepted overseas.

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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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There's almost nothing you can't do with a cashew. Not only does it lend its nutty sweetness to savory dishes, it also gives desserts a deep richness.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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If somebody says I'm a leader or notices the things I try to do to be a leader, it's the ultimate compliment.
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We think that without cooperation with the Russians, we cannot achieve our goals.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
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I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.
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When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.
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Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
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My philosophy is generally to keep things as simple as possible.
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I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me.
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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'
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You have more independent eyes scrutinizing the decision-making and financial statements of companies.
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An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter - and you know how arguments end. Even if I had convinced him that he was wrong, his pride would have made it difficult for him to back down and give in.
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What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.
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I didn't think much about foreign readers when I began 'Naruto,' but I knew that many of the artists who influenced me had already been accepted overseas.