Bankei Yōtaku Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
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I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
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A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.
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We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.
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That's what technology does to you - makes you lazy but allows you to innovate.
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There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.
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I love words. They're fun. I don't think any word can just be filler. There's no room for it. It's like a puzzle. Every song can be written a million times. How can you say it differently?
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When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.
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I think people know that I love food, but maybe people don't know that I cook a lot.
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At times, my very own media makes me cringe, and occasionally out loud. By the way, nothing clears the head like an out-loud cringe.
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Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.
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Small businesses win as they get more contracts; workers win as small businesses create jobs; and taxpayers win as prices are driven down.
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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
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Billie Jean King is the personality of women's tennis.
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I had a hard time treating my field as if it's horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other. I see how the industry and the studios feel it's important, but I don't really have a feeling for being in competition. I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.
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Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.
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An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment.
