Yasunari Kawabata Quotes
Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder.Yasunari Kawabata
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
Barry Ritholtz -
In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
Yanis Varoufakis -
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mahatma Gandhi -
To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
Yannick Noah -
Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
D. B. Sweeney -
Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
Oliver Joseph Lodge
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
Maimonides -
My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
Cam Newton -
Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.
Victor Pinchuk -
I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
Jack Lemmon -
If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.
Edmund White -
As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
Carla Gugino
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In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
Jacki Weaver -
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor Hugo -
I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.
Larry Dixon -
Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.
Waylon Jennings -
Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.
Ted Nugent -
What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.
Yoweri Museveni
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I want more of my favorite artists or more of the guy that makes the anthems. I want more.
DJ Khaled -
'There's nothing like a head-strong woman to make you happy to be alive.'
Wendelin Van Draanen -
A modern poet has characterized the personality of art and the impersonality of science as follows: Art is I: Science is We.
Claude Bernard -
Yeah, the material's been good so far, although I'm sure there's got to be a drought coming someday.
John Goodman -
Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder.
Yasunari Kawabata