Rei Kawakubo Quotes
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future.
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Writers are so important.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.
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A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.
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Many of the most science-fictional tools to fight climate change are untested, are almost impossible to truly test at planetary scale - we only have one planet after all. We're better off cutting our emissions so we don't need them.
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Being in this position enables myself and others to deliver messages of positivity - we can broadcast to everyone just how beautiful this world is, and all the ways we can keep it beautiful by treating one another with kindness.
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The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
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I definitely try to be myself and not try to imitate other performers. That's why I got my music degree. I wanted to be prepared and not be a 'product.' I want people to know that I'm not only a singer but a musician as well. I studied guitar, piano, and composition. I believe that it's just about being myself on and off stage.
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I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.
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A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels.
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Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.
