Kenzaburo Oe Quotes

The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.

Kenzaburo Oe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: japanese
  • Birth: January 31, 1935

Topics

BuildWayUpModernWestJapan

Watching movies in the U.S. is great fun because they get every joke, they smile, they laugh so much; it's a great feeling.

Jet Li

SmileGreatFunLaughFeelingJoke

It's good to establish moves that fans are always going to recognize and scream for.

Jeff Hardy

GoodAlwaysFansGoingScreamMoves

For me, part of one my big movements is building authentic street environments for skateboarding.

Rob Dyrdek

MeBuildingStreetSkateboardingBig

I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.

Robert T. Bakker

New YorkChanceAmericanMuseumNew

We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools.

Mike Huckabee

GodViolenceWhyAskOurSchools

I remember at the premiere of my second movie I started crying. I thought, I'm so bad that I either have to stop this and do something else or learn what I'm doing.

Josh Brolin

ThoughtLearnDoingRememberBad

On the night before a triathlon, I normally eat something simple like a pizza. You know where you stand with pizza. It's not going to upset you or give you food poisoning, and it contains carbohydrates and a bit of salt, which is perfect before a triathlon.

Jonathan Brownlee

FoodSimplePizzaNightStandYou

It was strange at times. We had to make out so much that we kind of got over it. It was really awkward.

Clea Duvall

KindStrangeOverOutAwkwardGot

If I weren't fighting, I'd be in the business world.

Chuck Liddell

BusinessWorldFightingWere

Barack Obama winning the election had an instant impact on everything - race relations, national self-esteem, tolerance. It also had an instant affect on 'Frost/Nixon.' At a stroke, instead of being a piece that reminded people of the agony they were in, it became an uplifting message about the agony they had escaped.

Peter Morgan

PeopleWinningImpactToleranceRace

I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

James Taylor

AchievementDieYouWonderSometimes

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

Hubert H. Humphrey

IsolationBreedsNationalNeurosis

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