Okakura Kakuzo Quotes
Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings - generally the latter.
Quotes to Explore
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Age for me is just a number.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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Everything can be satirized.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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It's different for every project. Some parts are quicker than others to get and know; sometimes right up until the last moment you're just praying that something will click. But you can only do a certain amount of work and then at some point you've got to think: 'OK, I'm just going to have to leap now.'
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'
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My forte is awkwardness.
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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We use convertible notes a lot at our fund - 8VC - so often that we just call them 'notes' to save time.
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If the United States and China can accommodate each other on a broad range of issues, the prospects for stability in Asia will be greatly increased.
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In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.
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When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.
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Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings - generally the latter.
