Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
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	I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.   
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	I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.   
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	I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.   
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	I never allow myself to be pressured.   
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	Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.   
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	To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.   
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	I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.   
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	I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.   
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	I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.   
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	I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.   
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	The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.   
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	I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.   
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	Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.   
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	I don't weigh. I don't weigh in at all.   
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	Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow.   
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	Yes, I am a lingerie model, but I have class.   
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	I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.   
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	I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.   
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	The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.   
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	When we hear the crane’s call we hear no mere bird. We hear the trumpet in the orchestra of evolution. He is the symbol of our untamable past, of that incredible sweep of millennia which underlies and conditions the daily affairs of birds and men.   
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	I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.   
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	In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.   
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	It is hardly a process at all. It is more like a lottery. It has become a rather squalid competition with no set procedure, shrouded in Big Power secrecy. They don't even interview the candidates.   
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	The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					