Tao Okamoto Quotes
Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
-
Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
-
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
-
My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
-
We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
-
If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
-
Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
-
I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
-
Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
-
I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
-
It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
-
Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
-
The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.
-
I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.
-
There's definitely an interest in Scotland and what happened here. I think the rest of the world are fascinated by our history, and it's nice to be able to bring Scotland and our culture and music to the screen.
-
In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
-
I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
-
My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
-
The villain drives the plot.
-
Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems.
-
Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn't a place you can be happy anymore.
-
When I began teaching, my colleagues and I quickly realized that our students didn't have access to the same resources we had growing up. We knew there were supplies and resources that could help our students, but our school district simply couldn't afford them.
-
I don't want to bore myself, so I'm always writing new music. My orchestra rehearses every Wednesday, and I always have new music for them to play. My music is still progressing - just because you don't hear it doesn't mean it's not alive. The music is complicated, but it's about emotion. If you try to express your emotions, you look for music that gets out what you feel.
-
Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.
