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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Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something.
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Twitter is incredibly useful. It's a great example of how the Internet is changing the way we engage with information and text. Above all else, this change in the nature of engagement is fascinating for me as a writer.
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I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.
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You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.
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Nothing that is expressed is obscene. What is obscene is what is hidden.
