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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The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
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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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I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.
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Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
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In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.
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In this universe, experience counts.
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I love both my parents dearly.
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Ian Rankin's Rebus is the king of modern British crime fiction. He is dour, determined, and constantly falls foul of his seniors. For all this, we root for him. He is eminently loveable, a quixotic hero moving through the darker half of a Jekyll and Hyde Edinburgh.
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The moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines.
