Gackt (Gakuto Oshiro) Quotes
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I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.
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If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
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IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.
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I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.
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All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.
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The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
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What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
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Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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I was so scared of the water when I was little. I used to grab onto Mum's hand to get out of the pool. I did not even want to shower.
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If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
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If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
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A lot of people want to discredit me.
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It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.
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I like the guys who wrote their own stuff and were able to perform it, like Seth Rogen. He popped off so young. When he did 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' and he was a co-producer on the movie, I was like, 'Oh my God: that's exactly what I want to do.'
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Acknowledging that we lose is the overarching theme in everything in Stars. To me, that's what punk means. Stars is a punk band because we acknowledge loss. We're not trying to win. We're not trying to project victory. You win alone. I'm not interested in singing for the one winner in the room; I'm interested in singing for all of the losers in the room.
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When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a baseball player. This is something I think about. The more I think about it, I'm convinced that God wanted me to play baseball.
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The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
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If immigration reform was easy, Congress would have dealt with it 15 years ago.
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
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It's not that I want to win, it's just that I don't want to lose.
