"It's not that I'm deliberately trying to shock people all the time. I'm just doing things that are obvious to me. It's because the public doesn't understand my way of thinking that they get surprised."

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Source : "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. November 23, 2005.

Takafumi Horie

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.”
“If you accept it to be natural and normal to be gay then it follows it is not right for two folk who love each other to be denied marriage,”
“When you practice leadership,The evidence of quality of your leadership, Is known from the type of leaders that emerge out of your leadership.”
“With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD”
“A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.”
“Loving someone is tiring and it hurts, but it's not something I can stop.”
“The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed.”

Source : William Mackergo Taylor (1879). “Moses the Law-giver”
“I never ever, ever say anything against my husband to anyone except my husband. Everyone gets in fights, and I think the natural propensity for women is, 'Oh I want to talk to someone.' But the minute you take what bothers you outside the bond between you and your husband, you let someone else into the relationship and that causes a wedge.”

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