Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
For ten years I had been protected, wrapped up in something like a blanket that had been stitched together from all kinds of different things. But people never notice that warmth until after they've emerged. You don't even notice that you've been inside until it's too late for you ever to go back-- that's how perfect the temperature of that blanket is.
Quotes to Explore
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
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Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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For ten years I had been protected, wrapped up in something like a blanket that had been stitched together from all kinds of different things. But people never notice that warmth until after they've emerged. You don't even notice that you've been inside until it's too late for you ever to go back-- that's how perfect the temperature of that blanket is.
