"My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature."

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Toru Takemitsu

#Inspirational Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Dukes Quotes

“I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Creativity is one of the last remaining legal ways of gaining an unfair advantage over the competition.”
“You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.”
“The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain”
“One of the first things we did was to find role models or mentors at companies that had achieved what we wanted to do. We bribed them or annoyed them for long enough until they decided to mentor us.”
“In Europe one needs to act ‘as if’ – as if what was wanted was little, in order to obtain much, as if States were to remain sovereign to convince them to concede sovereignty … The Commission in Brussels, for example, should act as if it were a technical instrument, in order to be able to be treated as a government. And so on by disguise and subterfuge.”
“In the world of love, it takes more than love to make someone happy”
“Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.”

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