Nagisa Oshima Quotes

Nothing that is expressed is obscene. What is obscene is what is hidden.

Nagisa Oshima

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• I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'

  

  Parker Posey
  • Like

• I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Girl
  • Never
  • Wedding

• We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.

  

  Ted Danson
  • You
  • Start
  • Looking

• Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Up
  • Music
  • Parents

• While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • World
  • Great
  • Eyes

• We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • World
  • Great
  • Help

• I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • Long
  • Years

• Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Relationship
  • Obligation

• Tests conducted before I graduated predicted a future for me in journalism, forestry, or the teaching of music; persons who know me well could recognize some truth in those seemingly errant prognoses.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Music
  • Truth
  • Future

• Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Charity
  • Behavior
  • Principle

• I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Me
  • Boy
  • Inspired

• What has been presented as Christianity during these nineteen centuries is only a beginning, full of mistakes, not full blown Christianity springing from the spirit of Jesus.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Jesus
  • Beginning

• Beyonce is the most amazing woman in the world.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • World
  • Amazing

• I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Proud
  • Style

• There have been times when I've feared for my own well-being in the great scheme of things because, historically, the track record has not been kind to the guitar players in this band.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Great
  • Band

• And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say.

  

  Bill Sienkiewicz

• Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.

  

  Bill Viola
  • Life
  • Work

• Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.

  

  Mary Astell
  • World
  • Action

• The industry is big, and if I get an interesting role, I will take it up.

  

  Amy Jackson
  • Up
  • Interesting

• Christmas can be the end of emptiness and waywardness; The beginning of happiness and purposefulness.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Christmas
  • Ends
  • Emptiness

• The IRS sent back my tax return saying I owed $800. I said, 'If you'll remember, I fastened my return with a paper clip... which, according to your own very latest government Pentagon spending figures, will more than make up the difference.'

  

  Emo Philips
  • Up
  • Remember

• Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Obscure
  • Heartless
  • Soulless

• One of the great things about being recognized is that you receive this feedback from people. It is easy to see how sincere people are. It's nothing fake or jive. They're giving sincere appreciation. And it's not that easy to express.

  

  John Astin
  • Express
  • Receive
  • Feedback

• Nothing that is expressed is obscene. What is obscene is what is hidden.

  

  Nagisa Oshima