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.
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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.
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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.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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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.
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I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.
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I'm just not very funny.
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I have no guitar technique.
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.
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I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
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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.
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Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.
Mandy Bujold
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Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.
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Some people say I was a thug and a gangster; other people remember me as a poet and a born leader. But I'm saying to you, measure a man by his actions fully, through his whole life, from the beginning to the end.
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In a sportsperson's life, pressure is always there; you have to learn to deal with it.
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What have you always wanted to do but been afraid to attempt? Whatever it is, it may be your greatest opportunity in life.
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I think everybody thinks about death, but I’m not afraid of it. That’s one thing about this society – why is death a taboo? When I die I know I’m going back to the earth, I have no illusions about that, I don’t believe in an afterlife – it’s a natural, biological and chemical process to disintegrate back into the earth. If I die and people want to come to a small gathering to mark my life, people can dress and behave however they want. They can play table tennis on my coffin if they want, I’m just a vessel that’s going back to the earth. It’s the cycle of life.
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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.
