Hayao Miyazaki Quotes

Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.

Hayao Miyazaki

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• I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Family
  • Black

• Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • History
  • Humanity
  • Language

• Nothing exists except through language.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Language
  • Nothing
  • Through

• Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Reality
  • Wish

• Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Live

• TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Life
  • Art
  • Violence

• Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Wife

• I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Best Friend

• We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Why
  • She
  • Help

• I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Facts
  • Cnn
  • Israelis

• I'm just not very funny.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Funny
  • Just
  • Very

• I have no guitar technique.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Guitar
  • Technique

• I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Trying

• Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Long
  • Power
  • Often

• I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Trying
  • Never
  • Doing

• I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Life
  • World
  • Spiritual

• Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Boxing

• Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I'm a huge Aerosmith fan.

  

  Kenny Chesney

• We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Education
  • Organization
  • Graduation

• I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • School
  • Experience
  • High

• The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Silence

• U.S. trade policy is not just about the relationship between our nation and other countries. It is part of a larger conversation about living wage, consumer protection, job security, and a better quality of life for all Americans.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Life
  • Job
  • Relationship

• Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Life
  • Fake
  • Modern