Ai Yazawa Quotes
The dreams we are chasing and the reality that is chasing us are always parallel; they never meet.
Quotes to Explore
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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I have about 4 million Lego bricks. And then a few million in storage in case something comes up. I still pay for them. I buy my bricks just like everyone else. It's by far my biggest capital expense.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?
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There's always someone in every group of friends that nobody likes.
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What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
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It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self.
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My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
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A location-aware tablet will let us use what's called geodesign to compose participatory, what-if scenarios onsite, using maps that several people can share - something we could always do with paper but that's been a challenge with digital maps in the field.
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When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way to God. God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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I'm not one of these actors who's out of touch with reality, put it that way.
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I think reality shows have changed me for the better. They bring out the best in you when you are under tremendous pressure. That apart, I have made some very good friends from these shows.
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That's the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where hopefully they've never been before. The details, that's what the world is made of.
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The dreams we are chasing and the reality that is chasing us are always parallel; they never meet.
