Ryuichi Sakamoto Quotes
I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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As strenuous challenge or contemplative retreat, the parks and other units of the national lands offer welcome respite from the world, a safety valve for body and spirit.
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As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.
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Miles Davis was a part of my life from 1947 on. I was born in 1941 and I first heard him in 1947 on a 78 rpm. And then I followed his career, starting with his first solo album in 1951. He was an icon and inspiration and a mentor to me.
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You can't take on the qualities of a character that you'd never be cast in - and no one would ever cast you in.
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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.
