Nagisa Oshima Quotes
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I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'
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I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
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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.
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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.
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While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.
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We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.
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I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification.
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Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
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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.
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Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.
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I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.
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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.
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Beyonce is the most amazing woman in the world.
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I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.
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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.
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And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say.
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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.
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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.
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Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
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Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.
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You've always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I've fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime?
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When we were first offered a book deal prior to Avon's, they were trying to get us to change it from the first-person story into a how-to book, and they were offering us some decent money. My agent told me; 'you should really consider this'.
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China owns more of our bonds than do Americans. That's not a good position to be in.
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Nothing that is expressed is obscene. What is obscene is what is hidden.
