"Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854."

-- Shigeru Yoshida

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“Leaving traces of ourselves, as in creative productivity, could then be seen as part of the definition of consciousness for us as well. We know that in order to progress we must stretch for something just out of reach--if only for a life that will be more compassionate and decent than the cruelty, paranoia, greed, narrow corporatism, or narcissism we mostly indulge in and find such ample justification for. And so we dream.”
“When you put a camera in front of me, I'm home.”
“It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.”
“I think Im different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine.”
“It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm not quite sure. Probably because "Hanky Panky" and "I Think We're Alone Now" had more to do with it than anything else. For some reason, staccato eighth notes on a bass sounded like bubblegum. Basically, groups like the 1910 Fruitgum Co. took my early format and kind of perverted it, and made these mindless pre-fab hits over and over. In the 60s, anybody who was making commercial music, that is music that didn't have a political slant to it, or wasn't taking drugs, was bubblegum. And that term kind of hung on a lot of people back then, and it's unfortunate.”
“Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.”

Source : "Fictional character: Doc Riedenschneider". "The Asphalt Jungle", 1950.
“By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die!”

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