"I want to lead an important life. I want to do it because I was born a human being."

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Source : Eiji Yoshikawa (1981). “Musashi”, HarperCollins Publishers

Eiji Yoshikawa

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“It's a universal story, it's an immigrant story, and it's a love story. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.”

Source : "Gloria and Emilio Estefan Have Rhythm — and Lots of Romance". Interview with Alanna Nash, www.aarp.org. August, 2013.
“Texas has no system in place, and what you have is chaos.”
“Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.”
“I'm African-American by my culture, not by my color. Race does not exist.”

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“Money is important but it is not everything... Think about everything you already have that money can't buy.”
“O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a woman's gaze....”
“Why, when we know that there's no such thing as perfect, do most of us spend an incredible amount of time and energy trying to be everything to everyone? Is it that we really admire perfection? No - the truth is that we are actually drawn to people who are real and down-to-earth. We love authenticity and we know that life is messy and imperfect.”
“I have been interested in the dialogue of abstraction and modernist painting - and the rich history of the grid. I also think I have been influenced a bit by some of the particular qualities of the Bay Area. The weather and the atmosphere here is so exotic, like the fog rolling in and the nuanced differences in the quality of light.”

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