Nagisa Quotes

#1. I don't think I see the world in terms of stupid or clever, but in terms of being able to get irony. There's some awful statistic about only 20 per cent of Americans being able to understand irony.

Douglas Coupland

#2. Those who play with fire should expect to be consumed by it.

Katie MacAlister

#3. A leader has to show the face his team needs to see.

Mike Krzyzewski

#4. I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

Keith Miller

#5. The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

Mary Ritter Beard

#6. I don't want to die, but I'm ok putting it all out there for the most beautiful expression of my life.

Dean Potter

#7. If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit.

Paul Waner

#8. I say haven't we had enough of just tossing our children in jail? Make them do community service, I say!

Jacquel Chrissy May

#9. The shape she loved was a triangle. Always black. Mauma put black triangles on about every quilt she sewed.

Sue Monk Kidd

#10. I used to think a wedding was a simple affair. Boy and girl meet, they fall in love, he buys a ring, she buys a dress, they say I do. I was wrong. That's getting married. A wedding is an entirely different proposition.

Steve Martin

#11. Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed.

Jurgen Habermas

#12. I do not like to be called a samurai, but I admit that I have an image of myself as a fighter. I would like to fight against all authorities and powers.

Nagisa Oshima

#13. Nothing that is expressed is obscene. What is obscene is what is hidden.

Nagisa Oshima

#14. To the leaders of the cinema still to come, I can offer only a few words drawn from my modest experience. You must ceaselessly formulate and sharpen your critical views, both of others and of yourselves.

Nagisa Oshima

#15. You know, I always suspected you were the kind of guy to jerk off to your own reflection, but this is a step too far.

Melanie Marchande

#16. My hatred for Japanese cinema includes absolutely all of it.

Nagisa Oshima

#17. I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.

Isaac Brock

#18. I made 60 motion pictures and only wore the sarong in about six pictures, but it did become a kind of trademark.

Dorothy Lamour

#19. Dancing came easy to me.

Hedda Hopper