Yusaku Maezawa Quotes
I choose to go to the Moon with artists. In 2023, as the host, I would like to invite 6 to 8 artists from around the world to join me on this mission to the Moon.
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
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I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization is to create a national network that connects every youth aging out of foster care to the critical resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive in adulthood.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.
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He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.
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Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.
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Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.
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The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
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Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.
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I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.
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I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
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Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.
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I bat righty.
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I don't want to rip away the security that people finally have; 18 million people now have healthcare; preexisting conditions are no longer a bar.
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The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect.
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It's too bad that we gave up that goal at the end, but that's going to happen. We found a way to come back and win it, which is a sign of a team that is desperate, but we're still on a mission.
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The Zodiak is history. I don't think it would be possible today to built up such an artslab, at least not in the way it worked out at the time, which was somehow accidentally, as part of the change of the paradigmata at the time. Nowadays as always people / artists have to learn to be free, to free themselves from being / feeling addicted to what's mainstream, what sells, what's successsful in terms of what the market expects. Contemporary music / art needs charismatic personalities who don't care at all about what the massmarket agrees to. There were and are not many of those personalities over the milleniums, as you perhaps realise.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.
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I choose to go to the Moon with artists. In 2023, as the host, I would like to invite 6 to 8 artists from around the world to join me on this mission to the Moon.
