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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It's that evil twin part of me that always comes out at the absolute wrong political moment, like a demon possessing my soul; it exhibits itself as an arrogance or disdain or obnoxiousness or meanness or anger or pettiness - all traits that are lethal in politics.
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The biggest misconception in the hip-hop industry is that people are only focused on the money. We should just be happy for everybody that is working in the hip-hop culture.
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A final argument for broad freedom of expression is its effect on the character of individuals in a society. Citizens in a free society must have courage — the courage to hear not only unwelcome political speech but novel and shocking ideas in science and the arts.
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As someone who grew up between two cultures, I have been fascinated with the question of why men and women with similar backgrounds to mine were drawn towards radical messages of hate and violence.
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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.
