Erstwhile Tokyo Quotes

#1. All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.

Samuel Beckett

#2. What's the problem you solve? Solve it for one person. Create a system to do it without you. Duplicate.

T. Harv Eker

#3. I don't claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

Michael Arrington

#4. I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.

Toby Jones

#5. She could hardly believe what she was hearing. How could the man who had taken her from her home - the person she had trusted with her safety, her life, her whole future - suddenly abandon her, and expect her to fend for herself in a foreign kingdom?

A. Grace Martin

#6. It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews.

Monica Bellucci

#7. It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. It's not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber.

Gary Ackerman

#8. She is a good girl," Park said. "You don't even know her."
His dad was standing, pushing Park toward the door. "Go," he said sternly. "Go play basketball or something."
"Good girls don't dress like boys," his mother said.

Rainbow Rowell

#9. Relationships, if you want them to work, take work. The biggest thing that I learned growing up, and even now, is if it's right, it's worth it. It's just a matter of finding that person you want to be with.

Josh Duhamel

#10. Dig your nails deep enough into the back of a Soviet, and eventually you'll find a Russian.

Magnus Flyte

#11. We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.

Dallas Willard

#12. At least I fight my own battles, Alister,' Micah said.
'Really? And exactly why did you go cackling to the dean?

Cinda Williams Chima

#13. Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking or mathematics envy.

Marvin Minsky