Bankei Yōtaku Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I enjoy what I do because it keeps evolving - when I was a cook, I wanted to be a chef de partie; when I was a chef de partie, I wanted to be a chef; when I was a chef, I wanted to be a restaurateur, and now I am a chef entrepreneur. I am still fulfilling my dream.
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Maybe back in the day you didn't need to be the greatest looking to be on TV and you didn't need to speak the best, but in this day and age, I think you need to be the package. You need to look the part for your sponsors, you need to be able to speak the part for the media and to big CEOs.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
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I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.
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We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.
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I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.
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You don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. That's not what i call free will.
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An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment.
