Akira Toriyama Quotes

Basically, I'm always coming up with ideas for mixing the things I want to draw with things targeted at children.

Akira Toriyama

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• I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Up
  • Children
  • Parents

• In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Women
  • Leadership
  • Voices

• I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Understand
  • Tea
  • Anger

• You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Good
  • Year
  • Opportunities

• I don't do things that are illegal.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Things
  • Illegal

• It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Heart
  • Political
  • Same

• Terrorists convince thousands of people to kill themselves in the name of God. I can't convince two of my friends to help me move.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • People
  • God
  • Friends

• Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Great
  • Knowledge
  • Discovery

• The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Up
  • May
  • Running

• For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Sun

• He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Heart
  • True
  • Beginning

• I charged into something which might have been a tree, but was not-being, in point of fact, Jeeves.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Tree

• Margarine? That’s not food. I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter? I can. If you’re planning on using margarine in anything, you can stop reading now, because I won’t be able to help you.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Food

• The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.

  

  David F. Houston
  • Past
  • Food
  • Value

• I don't have family in this business. I had two parents that loved me, that worked 24-7, and this is what instilled hard work in me. So you hear the stories about my upbringing, my religion.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Work
  • Family
  • Business

• I came out of high school, where my heroes were, like, Michael Jordan and a lot of local rugby players - and on the movie front, it was Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • School
  • Movie
  • High

• The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.

  

  Luis von Ahn
  • People
  • Game
  • Purpose

• My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making what he should have. He had to split it with five brothers. So I made up my mind: I was going to go on my own and make my own money.

  

  Alan C. Greenberg
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Money

• What I wonder most about the Anthropocene is not when did it start - but when, and how, will it end? Will it end? Or is it possible that our own growing awareness of our role on Earth can itself play a pivotal role in shaping the outcome toward one that we would desire?

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Earth
  • Growing
  • Desire

• I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Time
  • Work
  • Success

• Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Never

• "A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Earth
  • Hits
  • Meteors

• Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Children
  • Justice

• Basically, I'm always coming up with ideas for mixing the things I want to draw with things targeted at children.

  

  Akira Toriyama
  • Children
  • Ideas
  • Draw