Karen Tei Yamashita famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.
-- Karen Tei Yamashita -
The myth of the first world is that development is wealth and technology progress. It is all rubbish. It means that you are no longer human beings but only labor. It means that the land you live on is not earth but only property.
-- Karen Tei Yamashita
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
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When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
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Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.
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I've always had a fascination about mixing music,
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What unifies every part of my journey is I always lead with my curiosity, obsession, or fascination.
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I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.
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