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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For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?
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If no one is corrupt, no one will be poor.
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To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it's comedy or drama - I think timing is important in either. But for me, it's all about having a character to work on.
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For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.
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I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.
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An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment.
