Okakura Kakuzo Quotes
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I am much more interested in the process than results.
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Everything on this earth can be made into something better. Every defeat may be made the foundation of a future victory. Every lost war may be the cause of a later resurgence. Every visitation of distress can give a new impetus to human energy. And out of every oppression those forces can develop which bring about a new rebirth.
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I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive.
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Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
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I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years.
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In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.
