Keiichi Tsuchiya Quotes
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I really had no preconceptions or expectations for myself or really any rules. It kind of represented, at least for me, a divergent path of creativity and self-discovery.
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I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought I was living the dream, because I had a book out.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.
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Trends don't interest me.
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When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
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I just know what I want, and I'm willing to butt heads with folks to get it.
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No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it's time to push them wide open.
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Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.
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I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.
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I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.
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I don't know what it's like to be addicted to pills But I do know what it's like to be a witness it kills
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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We lived together for a long time,’ he said, looking out of a crack-spangled window, ‘we have no need to fight.’ I bet he is dead now. He had the vulnerable purity and courage that would ensure he was among the first to get whacked on the front.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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Easy writing makes hard reading.
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It is easy to make plans but difficult to carry them out.
