Ryuichi Sakamoto Quotes

I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

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• I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

  

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• It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

  

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• Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

  

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• Did anyone ever have a boring dream?

  

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• The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.

  

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• I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.

  

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• In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.

  

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• To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.

  

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• We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.

  

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• The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world.

  

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• Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

  

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• If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.

  

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• I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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• I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.

  

  Eden Hazard
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• I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist.

  

  Edith Widder
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• Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

  

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• The Pledge of Allegiance, ultimately, is coffee for elementary school students. '...And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. FUCK, I'm at SCHOOL! Can we say it again? I need a second cup.'

  

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• My parents were apprehensive about me traveling abroad, with terrorism and other problems. But they decided it was a good fit and supported me 100 percent.

  

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• All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.

  

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• I have a whole box full of pieces of the Berlin Wall and a heart made from the barbed wire of the Iron Curtain. It's - they're cherished treasures to me now, of course.

  

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• The spirit of a country, if it is to be true to itself, needs continually to draw great breaths of inspiration from the simple realities of the country; from the smell of its soil, the pattern of its fields, the beauty of its scenery and from the men and women who dwell and toil in the rural areas.

  

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• A lot of us lead relatively sedentary lifestyles, so you have to motivate yourself and force yourself to go to the gym and do active things. The folks that have figured it out, found that thing that they love and made it a big part of their lives, it's easy for them to stay in shape.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Love
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• I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.

  

  Ryuichi Sakamoto
  • Inspiration
  • Musicians
  • Especially