Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
I held the feeling in my heart; the urge to discuss it died out. There was all the time in the world. In the endless repetition of other nights, other mornings, this moment, too, might become a dream.
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I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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I'd rather entertain people than offend them.
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now.
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I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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Trump was elected in part because enough Americans viewed him as a capable and strong leader, someone who is 'decisive' and 'competent.'
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I read Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, every day.
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I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.
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I put my life in danger every time I do some of these demonstrations, whether it's in the audience hanging upside down or on the stage. We now have a lot of dangerous stunts where anything can go wrong. In fact, I have fallen two stories and landed on the stage, so I am well aware of the dangers.
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Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is.
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I held the feeling in my heart; the urge to discuss it died out. There was all the time in the world. In the endless repetition of other nights, other mornings, this moment, too, might become a dream.
