Eiichiro Oda Quotes
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I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.
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When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I'm interested in sites that help people find information and filter what's available. The Internet is so big that no one can stay on top of everything.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
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Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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I can always go back to education.
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In Colombia, women are a huge factor for reconciliation. I have seen many strong women advocating for negotiations. I remember when the paramilitary were active, there were women close to the paramilitary asking for negotiations.
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If a great role comes along, and you are too tall to play it, then I think the role is too small for your talents.
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I once pitched this show that was just like 'Quantum Leap,' in terms of the set-up, and I got a pass because they said 'Quantum Leap' didn't work, even though it was on for six or seven seasons. You can't say 'Quantum Leap' didn't work!
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I remember getting out of grad school and coming to New York and not wanting to get a teaching job because I wanted to work on my own, to develop my own ideas. There isn't that time now. Artists are exhibiting while they are still in grad school. There isn't that safety cushion.
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I actually have a decent singing voice, and I've never been able to sing onscreen. I'd love to do a musical.
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I had no idea at all how to model, but people would start to follow me. So, I would go to these start-up companies and say, 'I have all these followers... how can we work together?'
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Surpass the best to be the best.
