Yamamoto Tsunetomo Quotes
I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.
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It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.
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Film, I think, is my medium.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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I'm sorry, if you've been married for five minutes, you've sacrificed something, you've looked over at your partner and have gone, "Oh my God this is the biggest mistake I've ever made in my life." And then the next moment it's "This is the most beautiful and extraordinary human being, and I'm going to stick with it because I love them more than anyone else." That monologue to me is the universal thing, especially for women because I feel like that's the big thing with women.
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I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.
