Yuji Horii Quotes
Where 'Dragon Quest Monsters' originated from was 'Dragon Quest V,' where you had a monster befriending system as a main part: you could actually befriend monsters and have them fight on behalf of your party, as part of your party.

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I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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I don't think there is much American music.
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Novels are longer than life.
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We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up.
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
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You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.
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There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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I don't remember my first race, but I do recall various school sports days where I became way too competitive. We were seven or eight years old, and I had a very stern conversation with my relay team-mates about how crucial it was for us to win.
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There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.
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No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
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I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.
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The Koch brothers, through the expenditure of billions of dollars and the creation and support of dozens of extreme right organizations, have taken fringe extremist ideas and made them mainstream within the Republican Party.
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Where 'Dragon Quest Monsters' originated from was 'Dragon Quest V,' where you had a monster befriending system as a main part: you could actually befriend monsters and have them fight on behalf of your party, as part of your party.