Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
-
It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
-
Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
-
Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
-
Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
-
I open the doors for everybody all the time.
-
Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
-
In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
-
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
-
Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
-
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
-
But the working I would always want to do.
-
Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
-
When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
-
I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
-
I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.
-
There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
-
British girls are really funny, so I definitely think we'd get along.
-
It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.
-
Room service is great if you want to pay $500 for a club sandwich.
-
I had family and friends back home. Just because I could potentially feel alone in Los Angeles, that didn't mean I was alone.
-
The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.
-
People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.
