Issey Miyake Quotes

I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

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• No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Learning
  • Something

• When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Idea
  • Starting
  • Studying

• Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • People
  • You
  • Networking

• I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Good
  • Game
  • Street

• Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Think
  • Look
  • Now

• The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Responsibility
  • Justice

• When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • You
  • Advice
  • Facts

• There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Good
  • Planning
  • Details

• In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender, because you're changing over. You have to start getting electrolysis before you even start your therapy. But I think all the weird looks help to give you conviction in who you really are.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Help
  • Couple
  • Weird

• I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Know
  • Dying

• War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Up
  • War
  • Storm

• Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Shy
  • Burn
  • Dolly Parton

• Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time - it's very routine. I'm not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it's cool; it's good for me.

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Good
  • City

• When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Acting

• I like to do all kinds of films.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Like
  • Films
  • Kinds

• Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• My challenge is to convince Ontarians that the old world is not coming back.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • World
  • Challenge
  • Old

• I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.

  

  John Travolta
  • Dance
  • Ability
  • Cinema

• I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Night
  • Morning
  • Start

• The most insistent and formidable concern of agriculture, wherever it is taken seriously, is the distinct individuality of every farm, every field on every farm, every farm family, and every creature on every farm.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Family
  • Taken

• Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Song
  • Way
  • Questions

• He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

  

  Confucius
  • Answers
  • Questions
  • Asked

• My criticisms are extremely mild in comparison to the tone of some of the questions fired in my direction.

  

  Scott McClellan
  • Questions
  • Direction
  • Criticisms

• I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

  

  Issey Miyake
  • Questions
  • Avoided
  • Hiroshima