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.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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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.
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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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.
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Women just love to shop.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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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.
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I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
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I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
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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.
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Having a son is not all pleasure.
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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.
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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I was patriarch To Elijah and Elijah. I was there at the crucifixion Of the merciful Mabon.
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Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.
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If you ain't holding, you ain't trying.
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Need is not quite belief.
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There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.
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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.
