Taisen Deshimaru Quotes

The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.

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• The Trump family's business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Family
  • Business
  • Job

• When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • Short
  • Early

• Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Reality
  • Need
  • Writer

• The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Popular
  • Seems
  • Celebration

• I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• I'm about my characters.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Characters
  • About

• My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Character
  • Job
  • End

• Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Long
  • War
  • Mistake

• In Kurdistan, there's a lot of hardship – a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Difficult
  • Bitter
  • Wars

• As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Writing
  • House
  • Beautiful

• There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Work
  • My Life

• Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.

  

  Lars Feld
  • Growth
  • Progress
  • Taxes

• I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with. That's also where the anxiety comes from.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Anxiety
  • Scared

• I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Choices
  • Result

• I love what TLC did with the baggy pants. I love a lot of throwbacks.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Love
  • Lot
  • With

• My dreams came true while wearing the opening look from the spring/summer 2010 Dior ready-to-wear collection. I will never forget how special I felt opening John Galliano's show, like I was living a dream.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • True
  • Dream
  • Summer

• I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country, i.e., against the environment in which God hath placed him, as it is to assume that his country is against the artist.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Country
  • Environment

• You realize that you can't win 'em all. You try to win 'em all; you get frustrated, but you gotta have a short fuse either way. Success in the NFL is just as deadly as allowing yourself to kinda wallow in sorrow. It works both ways.

  

  Jon Beason
  • Success

• We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Good
  • Question

• Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Suffering
  • Nation
  • Reform

• I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Handicaps

• The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru