Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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I am constantly accused of being 'First World.' So what should I do? I can't apologise for my environment, upbringing, aesthetic.
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
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Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.
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As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
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I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.
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I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
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We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.
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I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.
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Rice cakes and peanut butter is my favorite snack in the whole wide world.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.
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When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
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Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.
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There are strong reasons for believing that space goes on beyond the limits of our observational horizon. There are strong reasons because if you look in opposite directions, conditions are the same to within one part in 100,000. So if we are part of some finite structure then, if the gradient is so shallow, it is likely to go on much further.
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Feelings you have for each other will not be known unless you voice them.
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Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on with.
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As far as action is concerned, our films have been coming up with some great sequences. In fact, I think Hollywood is copying Bollywood by getting their heroes to bash up 15 guys at a time.
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Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.
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Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
