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

• We need to make sure that leaks of classified information, of national security secrets, needs to be rigorously pursued and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

  

  John O. Brennan
  • Law

• Ada girl, adored girl, [...] I'm a radiant void. I'm convalescing after a long and dreadful illness. You cried over my unseemly scar, but now life is going to be nothing but love and laughter, and corn in cans. I cannot brood over broken hearts, mine is too recently mended.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Girl

• I totally should've gone to Hogwarts when I had the chance.

  

  Darynda Jones
  • Chance
  • Should
  • Gone

• When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the ability to play with crossed hands: many of us, when we are older, regard it as a proof of literary skill, maturity, even of sophistication: and many, whether young, not so young, or old, employ it gauchely, haphazardly or, at best, inconsistently.

  

  Eric Partridge
  • Hands
  • Regard
  • Pianist

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

  

  Nagisa Oshima