Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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Yoga is a life-saver.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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Let us say in the pocket of one of my old coats I find a movie ticket from many years ago. Once I see the ticket, not only do I remember that I saw this movie, but also scenes from this movie, which I think I have entirely forgotten, come back to me. Objects have this power, and I like it.
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Every time I get a role, I'm surprised. It's like, 'Alright, when am I going to stop fooling them?'
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In Morocco, for a woman to earn her own living is the essential concern.
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The last thing I want is for people to go through the motions in life. We're all meant to do different things, but there's a lot of opportunity for us to do some great things.
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I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.
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Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.
