Tao Okamoto Quotes
I remember when I saw 'X-Men' the first time, I was living in England as an exchange student, and my first boyfriend, who's an Englishman, made me watch the movie... He was very jealous that I liked Hugh Jackman so much.
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Truth is the best defense.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does its best to ignore their existence altogether, referring to them only under provocation and then with apology, but, like its more material brother, this boil on the neck of the spirit can hardly be forgotten either by the sufferer or anyone else in his vicinity. The malady is ludicrous, sad, excruciating and, above all, instantly diagnosable.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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I do definitely get boxed into this #BlackGirlMagic social activist category. But it makes me think, "Well, maybe people are able to start thinking about that concept earlier and will hopefully be inspired to delve deeper into it and research it more." I think that's just how the media works. It's just very good at compartmentalizing human beings.
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One strange feeling, which I remember clearly, was a powerful link with the slain, particularly those that had fallen within the past hour or two. There was so much death around that life seemed almost indecent. Some men's uniforms were soaked with gobs of blood. The ground was sodden with it. I killed, too.
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Each state in the Union is honored in the order of when it ratified the Constitution and became a part of the United States. This September it is Iowa's turn. Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the union on December 28, 1846.
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I remember when I saw 'X-Men' the first time, I was living in England as an exchange student, and my first boyfriend, who's an Englishman, made me watch the movie... He was very jealous that I liked Hugh Jackman so much.
