Rila Fukushima Quotes

I have a weakness for buttons. I'm always collecting ornate and nicely decorated ones.

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• Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Power
  • Simple

• Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Heaven

• I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • People
  • Country
  • Language

• Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Bad
  • Future
  • Past

• This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Good
  • Surprised
  • Coup

• I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Like
  • Internet
  • Going

• In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Trying

• My philosophy is always to hire the best from the best.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Best
  • Always
  • Philosophy

• What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

  

  David Hume
  • Experience
  • History

• As a general rule, moderate levels of arousal facilitate deployment of skills, whereas high arousal disrupts it. This is especially true of complex activities requiring intricate organization of behavior.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • True
  • High
  • Organization

• It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Difficult
  • Loves
  • Unjust

• I view Al Jazeera as a very serious journalistic outfit. They have proven to observers around the world that they are serious and objective. They will have to, at a P.R. level, prove to the American public that that is the case. And I think that over time they will succeed at doing that.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Time
  • World
  • American

• The passions are the voice of the body.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Passion
  • Body
  • Voice

• Water has an endless horizon; there is no limitation when you look out into the water. There's nothing to interfere with the mind's eye projecting itself as far as it can possibly imagine. I suppose it's the same way people in the Midwest feel about watching amber waves of grain or endless rows of cornfields. There is something exhilarating about it.

  

  Billy Joel
  • People
  • Mind
  • Water

• You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Stranger
  • Footsteps

• Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Value
  • Values
  • Property

• The librarians know the secrets, not the historians

  

  Dee Brown
  • Book
  • Secret
  • Library

• Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Parents
  • Hate
  • Offspring

• Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Me
  • Lie
  • March

• We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Fear

• My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • inspirational
  • Break

• Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors. It has changed our ideas about time. When you can gird the earth at 1,000 m.p.h., how can you endure the tardiness of a plumber? Most of all, flying has changed our sense of our body, the personal space in which we live, now elastic and swift. I could be in Bombay for afternoon tea if I wished. My body isn't limited by its own weaknesses; it can rush through space.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Earth
  • Imagine
  • Flying

• I have a weakness for buttons. I'm always collecting ornate and nicely decorated ones.

  

  Rila Fukushima
  • Weakness
  • Collecting