Nagaru Tanigawa Quotes

On the surface, humans appear to hate conflict, but in reality, they seek it.

Nagaru Tanigawa

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• I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Struggle
  • Chaos

• The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Social
  • Court
  • Supreme Court

• Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Good
  • God
  • Heart

• You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Why
  • Change
  • Three

• I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Writing
  • Model
  • Songs

• The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Life
  • Character
  • Dad

• There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.

  

  Oscar De La Hoya
  • Long
  • Business
  • Space

• I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Time
  • Frightened

• I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.

  

  Bar Paly
  • People
  • Strong
  • Me

• I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Hate
  • Actor

• Both my wife and I went to Harvard, and it's incredibly exciting that our son and daughter are going there and have the chance to experience it. There are many awesome opportunities at Harvard. That's one of its greatest frustrations - not having enough time to take the classes you want to take.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Wife

• My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Religion
  • Mental Illness

• When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Character
  • Future
  • Past

• A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Family
  • Own
  • Superstitions

• I don't think I've ever been haunted by a ghost, but I always joke with my fiance about the house we're living in right now. It seems to have something in it.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Think
  • House
  • Always

• I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Books
  • Read
  • Buy

• It's very liberating to cut your hair.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Hair
  • Very
  • Cut

• It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.

  

  Joaquin Phoenix
  • Feeling
  • Alone
  • Amazing

• I'm a perfectionist. I like to get it right. I like to get it good. And you know, writing songs is not - it's not the kind of thing that you can count on every day. You never know what's going to come or if it's going to come. So you - you know, it's an uncertain kind of a thing.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Good
  • Writing

• Humor is important. Nothing against bands that are always a downer, but the reality is - it just becomes theater.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Important
  • Reality

• Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view. Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry.

  

  Ernst Haas
  • Reality
  • Moments
  • Speak

• On the surface, humans appear to hate conflict, but in reality, they seek it.

  

  Nagaru Tanigawa
  • Reality
  • Hate