Ikue Mori Quotes
The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'
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The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.
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You need to talk to people, and you need to hear what it is they have to say.
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I'm super OCD, so everything is clean.
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Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.
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If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.
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As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew them... It is his empathy for the sitter, combined with his enjoyment and dexerity in handling paint that captured my imagination then, and is what I am striving for still.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
