Yasumasa Morimura Quotes
I planned the exhibition so that it becomes a story where the viewer travels through these islands [of ideas]. Whether the contents of each chapter came first or the artist came first in making the decision was different in each case.
Quotes to Explore
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
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To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
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What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.
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I spent 10 years in professional politics and eight writing comics, and so I look at it from both sides. I don't understand the logic in being frustrated with a system, so you choose to be a part of the reason why the system is so frustrating. If everybody voted, it wouldn't be this way.
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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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Bel canto is my passion, and I really consider myself a bel canto singer.
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I planned the exhibition so that it becomes a story where the viewer travels through these islands [of ideas]. Whether the contents of each chapter came first or the artist came first in making the decision was different in each case.
