Masayoshi Son Quotes
I know I should not be a hindrance to SoftBank's future growth and that I need to pass on the baton to the younger generation.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
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I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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A heart makes a good home for the friend.
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I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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A woman is a woman. A woman has male problems, has job problems, and I think funny is funny.
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Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
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A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one.
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I know I should not be a hindrance to SoftBank's future growth and that I need to pass on the baton to the younger generation.
