Joichi Ito Quotes
I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.
Quotes to Explore
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Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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I just throw on foundation and under-eye concealer, then dust bronzer on my cheeks so they look defined.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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I've always, in some way, incorporated sampling into my work.
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Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control.
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Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.
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I had always wanted to expand to beauty, but I knew I wanted to be able to translate my design aesthetic in an authentic way.
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I first started wearing fragrance when I was thirteen or fourteen, and the smell was candy-like. They were in very colorful bottles, like turquoise and pink. By the time I was sixteen or seventeen, it got more girly and more floral.
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I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.
