Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.
Quotes to Explore
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.
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Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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As fantastic as it is to have 'Vogue' and 'Vanity Fair' as places to work, I don't often get to shoot the kind of things I like to photograph in the way I like to photograph.
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You know, when you're trying to get better at golf, you're always measuring your game up against other people to see what you've got to do to get better and to see if you can compete with them.
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I lead a very disciplined life.
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I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.
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It is not the criminals who arouse the hatred of others, but the men who are honest.
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In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.
