"The techniques should not be practised simply so they can be performed in the kata. Since karate is a fighting art each technique and movement has its own meaning. The karateka must consider their meaning, how and why they are effective, and practise accordingly"

-- Shigeru Egami

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“If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his age who are smarter than he is?”
“Hereâ€™s the thing about rights. Theyâ€™re not actually supposed to be voted on. Thatâ€™s why theyâ€™re called rights.”
“It's hard to go out in front of people with an acoustic guitar and improvise for 30 or 40 minutes, but I had a compulsion to do it. I just had to in a way that I can't really explain.”
“Life would be so much easier if fictional boys were real.”
“Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.”
“I grow my own vegetables and herbs. I like being able to tell people that the lunch I'm serving started out as a seed in my yard.”
“I tried on 250 bathing suits in one afternoon and ended up havinglittle scabs up and down my thighs, probably from some of those withsequins all over them.”
“I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both.”

Source : "The wild west". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2001.

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