Eiichiro Oda Quotes
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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I think it's good to conquer the fears.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
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I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.
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My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
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'Brutality!' cried Tristam. The class was at last interested. 'Beatings-up. Secret police. Torture in brightly lighted cellars. Condemnation without trial. Finger-nails pulled out with pincers. The rack. The cold-water treatment. The gouging out of eyes. The firing squad in the cold dawn. And all this because of disappointment. The Interphase.'
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My hobby is my job. it's a jobby!
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I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
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[But if things continue the way they are] ...the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war.
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When I decided to follow my dream, I had already discarded my life.
