Yukio Mishima Quotes

As he saw it, there was only one choice - to be strong and upright, or to commit suicide.

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• I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Want
  • End

• If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • House
  • You

• It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Work
  • Important
  • Together

• If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • Love
  • Hate

• I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Writing
  • College
  • Take

• Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Proud
  • End
  • Seeing

• Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Life
  • Chance
  • Random

• Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

  

  Nas
  • Hip Hop
  • Noise
  • Spotlight

• I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.

  

  Kaki King
  • Music
  • Color
  • Red

• At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Culture
  • Question

• I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Real

• There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.

  

  Oleg Kulik
  • Work
  • Taken
  • Nothing

• My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Listening

• When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Power
  • Single
  • Year

• I'm not the girl next door.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Door
  • Girl Next Door

• I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Kind
  • Fall
  • Confident

• PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Up
  • Children
  • School

• I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Movie
  • Interested
  • Cry

• We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Himself
  • Tone

• There's some evidence that if you're recruiting, you tend to recruit a mini-me. Then you have a very comfortable group round a table. You all think alike. You agree. People are arguing that the banking crisis was because too many of the relevant bodies were thinkalikes, and that if they'd had more diversity, maybe it wouldn't have happened.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • People
  • Diversity

• The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did.

  

  James Daly
  • People
  • Business
  • Experience

• I do think it's very important, if you're going to spend the rest of your life with somebody, to know that you really like them. Because when the pheromones wear off, which of course they will, you have to have a strong basis.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Life
  • Important
  • Strong

• As he saw it, there was only one choice - to be strong and upright, or to commit suicide.

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • Strong
  • Suicide