Gail Tsukiyama Quotes
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.
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California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.
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I'm known among my friends for saying things I probably shouldn't sometimes, but I have to get things out in the air.
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I make clothes; women make fashion.
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You meet a friend - your face brightens. You have struck gold.
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How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?
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I learnt to read when I was five, and I think that is the most important thing that happened to me.
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Sometimes you can’t let go of the past without facing it again.
