Ueda Akinari Quotes
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?
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For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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Religion is induced insanity.
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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For as long as I can remember, we've been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations - nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects, it seems dramatically worse, and that is especially true for women.
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As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.
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The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
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My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.
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I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.
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Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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One of the reasons that New York became great was that it's serviced by many, many different rivers and waterways. You have the Atlantic Ocean connected virtually right to it, and it's serviced by the East River and the Hudson River and lots of tributaries.
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The moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines.
