Takeshi Kitano Quotes
I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?
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I never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's just a much faster and more modern way to distribute things, and you have to embrace it.
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If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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My favorite writer on 'The X-Files' is this guy Darin Morgan. He wrote my favorite episode and the top five favorite episodes that everyone loves.
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James Joyce actually is rewarding you in all of these incredible ways.
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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
