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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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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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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For me, love is endless, and love has no age limit.
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All the difficulties surrounding the making of 'Mars et Avril' actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success!
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.
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Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at the moment the thing is being made. But the gap between what we recognize inside ourselves - our feelings- and our ability to trust ourselves and to trust exposing ourselves to those ideas, can be great.
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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.
