Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
Quotes to Explore
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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 thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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When I found stand-up, it was like finding home.
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I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.
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Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.
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I don't eat fast food - and neither should you!
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
