Ieyasu Tokugawa Quotes
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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I want to be an actor - I don't want to be a celebrity. They are two different things, and people have forgotten that they are different.
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I'm the type of person who far prefers a vacation filled with trips to museums and art galleries, shopping and exploring vintage flea markets, people-watching at cafes, and discovering delicious restaurants as opposed to lounging on a beach for days on end.
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The art that I do is for the people. It is about engaging a new audience who wouldn't necessarily go to art galleries and museums and painting on the street is the best way to do that.
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My wife and I, we met making a movie. This is not just our job, it's our life. It's what we do naturally whether we're working together or not.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
