Yasujirō Ozu Quotes
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
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I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.
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You basically only discover a new thing once.
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Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
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My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my 'special-day shoes.'
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I am keen to maintain very good relations and develop the relationship with the United States.
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Making sounds that literally no one has ever heard before because the software and the technology's never been there, and pairing that with great songwriting, then that's what's exciting for me. That's what I wanna do.
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I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.
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If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, 'Oh it's great. We're totally crushing it,' and that's almost never true.
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We're all equal before a wave.
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But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress.
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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.
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The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!
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Writing is fifty years behind painting.
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As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.
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I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.
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..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.
