Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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When I was a boy in Desuq, Egypt, a city on the Rosetta branch of the Nile, about 50 miles east of Alexandria, my family lived steps away from the local landmark, a mosque named for a 13th-century Sufi sheik.
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Now that this issue is being made public, you are suffering the same pain all over again.
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I feel if theres one little thing I could do, its to make people realize: We are not worthless because we inhabit a country which is seen by Western eyes as a primitive, fundamentalist country only. . .I mean, we are a rich mixture of all sorts of forces as well, and our lives are very much worth living.
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I used to play Saturday night shows with different little groups. If I could get a show, I would do it. I used to do mad things - I used to go and do these shows and go on my knees and roll on the ground - when I was 15,16 years old. And my parents were extremely disapproving of it all. Because it was just not done. This was for very low-class people, remember. Rock & roll singers weren't educated people.
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Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.