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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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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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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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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People are so passionate... Now that I have discovered Twitter, it's become so fun that people are really into this 'Clexa' thing, and there's such a great response to their relationship.
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Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.
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Besides almonds or granola, I don't eat a lot during the day - juicing is what gives me energy.
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I was a boy toy for a bunch of women.
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I want to bring an element of delight and magic that will knit together the Sprint Arena and the Power and Light District.
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I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.
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I think it's mainly when I need inspiration I look at the old pictures. I don't find it as much in the new stuff. I love Carole Lombard. I think she's wonderful. Gloria Grahame was really great. Garbo. Dietrich. People knew how to create an illusion. Now everything is very realistic and straightforward. Everyone's grunge.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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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.
