Banana Yoshimoto Quotes

People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they meet. You spend a little while talking and everyone starts to feel this conviction, you're all equally sure that you're at the beginning of something good. That's how it is when you meet people you're going to be with for a long time.

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• I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.

  

  La India
  • Career
  • Change
  • Myself

• With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Try
  • Gentleman
  • To Be

• I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Life
  • Done
  • Mistake

• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Culture
  • Drama
  • Painting

• Some films shouldn't be remade.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Films
  • Some
  • Remade

• I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Taught
  • Knew
  • Quitting

• I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Up
  • California
  • Diversity

• Women just love to shop.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Women
  • Love
  • Shop

• It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reality

• If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Think
  • Him
  • Upset

• I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Numbers
  • Manners
  • Morals

• I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Think
  • Society

• Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Time
  • Work
  • Passionate

• Having a son is not all pleasure.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Son
  • Pleasure
  • Having

• As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Kid
  • Created
  • Represent

• Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.

  

  Ted Bell
  • Book
  • Me
  • Year

• Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Political

• 'Damn you!' Dagenham raged, 'Don’t you realize that you can’t trust people? They don’t know enough for their own good.''Then let them learn or die. We’re all in this together. Let’s live or die together.'

  

  Alfred Bester
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• I think it’s odd how it’s mirrored my life so much.

  

  Eve Myles
  • Thinking
  • Odd

• I'm very conscious of the fact the directing career has taken some odd turns. Maybe there's enough bulk where I'm now pigeonholed in the 'eclectic box.'

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Career
  • Taken

• I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.

  

  Peter Jennings
  • Believe

• Drink has shed more blood, hung more crepe, sold more homes, plunged more people into bankruptcy, armed more villains, slain more children, snapped more wedding rings, defiled more innocence, blinded more eyes, dethroned more reason, wrecked more manhood, dishonored more womanhood, broken more hearts, blasted more lives, driven more to suicide and dug more graves than any other evil that has cursed the world.

  

  Evangeline Booth
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they meet. You spend a little while talking and everyone starts to feel this conviction, you're all equally sure that you're at the beginning of something good. That's how it is when you meet people you're going to be with for a long time.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • People
  • Time
  • Good