Enson Inoue Quotes
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I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.
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In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.
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Live fast, die young.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.
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Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
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Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.
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Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?
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On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I'm not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me.
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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Whaling was the oil business of its day.
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We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on to the Constitution. That can't go on forever.
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The priest, realistically considered, is the most immoral of men, for he is always willing to sacrifice every other sort of good to the one good of his arcanum - the vague body of mysteries that he calls the truth.
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Live as a man. Die as a man. Become a man.
