Yasumasa Morimura Quotes
Of course, I, like the sponsoring government, would like to have as many people as possible visit Yokohama Triennale. This is because I believe that art should not be monopolized by professionals and specialists.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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The world is too violent right now.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.
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The shows at the Hilton are the most exciting shows I've ever done. The stage is huge, but the theater is intimate, so we can have a magnificent production and still connect with the audience.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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Jessica Jones is such a great part, and I do serious work on it. I feel really creatively fulfilled.
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It's painful to consider anything but writing.
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I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.
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The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.
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Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job.
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Of course, I, like the sponsoring government, would like to have as many people as possible visit Yokohama Triennale. This is because I believe that art should not be monopolized by professionals and specialists.
