Ayumi Hamasaki Quotes
I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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I like being unconventional.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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I feel like there's value in experience.
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The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
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I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.
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Victims of oppression & injustice don't need our spasm of passion....they need our legs & lungs of endurance.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome.
