Akira Yoshizawa Quotes
Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future but it's always based on what we have. Then as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas. You know?
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I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.
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I would have loved to have cracked America. When I tried, I got homesick. Then, when I was in New York, my nanna died, and I just wanted to come home.
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There are a lot of people who will tell you I'm very ruthless. I'm very fierce. If I feel I'm right, if I feel I've been violated, then I am like a warrior from hell!
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We came up short on offense and that's on me.
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Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
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A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
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I would very honestly just tell you that what I tried to do was simply respond to inquiries from people as they came in. Where I've thought I could say something useful, I've tried to add a voice that was, frankly, a dissident voice earlier on, but one that I think has become a more mainstream voice-and not because I've shifted. I think that the critique I had of what was going on in our financial system from six, eight years ago-after seeing some of what we've suffered through and even since the cataclysm itself-in terms of the structural changes.
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If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar.
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It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman.
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When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.
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A cat doesn't linger over making it's desires felt.
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Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.
