Tatsumi X Quotes

#1. Roger Goodell makes $40 million a year, which more than compensates him for the most difficult and sensitive decision in his nine years as commissioner: How hard to come down on Tom Brady, the best quarterback in NFL history, who Goodell told me last year is a "great ambassador for the game"

Gary Myers

#2. The mantra I used was 'find a way.'

Diana Nyad

#3. When one considers the body in relation to dance, it is then that one truly realizes what suffering is: it is a part of our lives. No matter how much we search for it from the outside there is no way we can find it without delving into ourselves.

Tatsumi Hijikata

#4. Even your own arms, deep inside your body feel foriegn to you, feel that they do not belong to you. Here lies an important secret. Butoh's radical essence is hidden here.

Tatsumi Hijikata

#5. The dance of darkness must spout blood into the air, in the name of the experience of evil

Tatsumi Hijikata

#6. There are as many types of Butoh as there are Butoh choreographers.

Tatsumi Hijikata

#7. I think Europe is going in the right direction and we shouldn't be set back.

Peter Mandelson

#8. The white economic and political elite often failed to recognize blacks as American, just as blacks often failed to recognize their potential for advancement outside of the limited opportunities afforded them by whites.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#9. At the root of all the various manifestations of dancing lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states which we cannot externalize by rational means.

Jamake Highwater

#10. The building of a computer application is very identical to the building of a house; they both have to be logically designed.

Leonard Rattini

#11. A man shouldn't go crying like that, people will think you're weak.

Ryuhei Tamura

#12. The rat gave birth. Six little ones ... cute baby rats ... None of them are like Hitler.

Yoshihiro Tatsumi

#13. The story entitled 'Good-Bye' is probably Tatsumi's most well-known work, and I think it's a good representation of many of Tatsumi's skills and stylistic tendencies.

Adrian Tomine

#14. If a rare golden heart is sacrificed in the process of trying to research or help many, then the world loses.

Leta B.

#15. The champion makes his own luck.

Earl Blaik

#16. Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to find his feet

Tatsumi Hijikata