Yamamoto Tsunetomo Quotes
Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
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Since I know that about a million people have been killed by the government of Iraq, I do not need much those weapons of mass destruction.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
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Working with women survivors of war has taught me that we need to listen to women's perspectives on war in order to understand how to effectively rebuild a country, a community and a family.
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Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.
