Naoki Higashida Quotes
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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It's really hard to use a laptop when you only have half a lap.
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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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There are loads of amazing actors in the UK and only 2% of them are in work, which is crazy.
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Neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth – that's the way home. Neither vodka nor bread just bursts of rage just more new graves – that's youth and that's love. Neither sleep nor waking neither joy nor laughter just tears in the night – so the rope, paper, knife.
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I cannot imagine the type of sinister fiend who would be against the library. A library essentially says, 'Look, here is some free information that will enrich your life. Read it on your own time. I trust that you will bring it back when you are finished.' It might be the most civilized, forward-thinking institution in America. Perhaps the only one, in fact.
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I think one possibility [in the future] might be chemotherapy. And I'm always hesitant to say that because it makes it sound like I'm against chemotherapy. Right now, chemotherapy is the best cancer treatment therapy we have. But let's say we find some way where we can almost genetically engineer the DNA of our being and fight cancer that way. Then, the idea that we used to pump poison into people to fight off cancer will almost seem like the use of leeches or something.
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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.
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I do believe he’s the greatest, but forget about boxing - give that to Joe Louis, or somebody - I believe he’s one of the greatest men I’ve ever met.
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But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.
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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
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The truth is, anybody that becomes famous is an ass for a year and a half. You've got to give them a year and a half, two years. They are getting so much smoke blown, and their whole world gets so turned upside down, their responses become distorted. I give everybody a year or two to pull it together because, when it first happens, I know how it is.
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Suffering is an illusion.
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I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.
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I'm going to be really critical of myself when I watch tape to see how in the Lord's name did we not get him a shot at the rim somehow. What's baffling is we worked extra in practice on getting him the ball, and he didn't get one shot at the rim. There are days when I absolutely love what I do and days when I hate it. Right now, I hate it. We worked on making the post feed, and the more we tried, the worse it got. It was one of those nights when everything possible could go wrong.
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I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that.
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Can you imagine how your life would be if you couldn't talk?
