Takeshi Kitano Quotes
I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
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The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real, your worldview will come crashing down around you.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
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If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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I want to fall in love with something in the way I fell in love with the idea of Harry before I write anything else.
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One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction.
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I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do.
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I am backing Remain for a very simple reason: it is the best way of protecting jobs, wages and rights for working people.
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Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
