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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I would estimate that the number of programs it breaks in the world will be less than 10. As long as one of those 10 isn't CGI.pm, we're probably okay.
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If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong.
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When I was, like, 10, I decided it would look really cool, so I pretended I was British. And I've been doing that ever since.
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Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. It's too high! Come to the edge! And they came, and he pushed, and they flew.
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Ninety percent of life was being there, and the rest was being there on time.
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Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
