Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
it'll be this kind of deep blue”she said. “The kind of color that somehow sucks your eyes and your ears and all your words —the color of a completely closed-in night
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
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I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.
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There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but they are starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it.
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I know that some things are beyond our control, some illnesses are beyond our control, we get sick, we don't know why. But let's pledge to do whatever we can to avoid those high medical bills.
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I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.
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When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?
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Everything you want to know about a fighter is in his eyes. The look in his eyes tells the truth.
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it'll be this kind of deep blue”she said. “The kind of color that somehow sucks your eyes and your ears and all your words —the color of a completely closed-in night
