Taisen Deshimaru Quotes
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Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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Like it or not, we are all liars. Thank goodness. Imagine going through life where everyone is completely honest: 'Those shoes... look like something out of an early Cyndi Lauper video.' 'Your daughter... looks like the spawn of Honey Boo Boo and Elmer Fudd.'
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Like his that lights a candle to the sun.
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Pictures all around, of how good a life should be, a model for the rest, that bred insecurity, I walked a jagged line and then came back for more, it's always in my mind, an institution with no law.
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I think we are in an age where cash pays for time and space. The more cash you have, the bigger space you can buy and the smaller the technology to put in it.
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Wine buffs write and talk as though the food and wine will be in your mouth at the same time, that one is there to be poured over the other. This is bullshit. Gustatory enjoyment comes from food and wine and cigars of your liking. So far no one has said that a Monte Cristo is the only cigar to smoke after Armagnac, Romeo and Juliet after Calvados ... but the time may yet come.
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Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
