Takashi Murakami Quotes

For children of my generation, anime was an escape from Japan's loser complex following World War II. Anime wasn't foreign. It was our own.

Takashi Murakami

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: japanese
  • Birth: February 1, 1962

Topics

ChildrenWarWorldGenerationLoser

In 1932, the predecessor organization, the CDC, took 299 black sharecroppers from the South who had syphilis. They offered them free healthcare, hot lunches, and free burial. They said you can only come to us for healthcare. These were men who were sharecroppers, and they had syphilis. They were never told they had syphilis.

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

MenOrganizationFreeBlackYouHot

The idea for Chipotle is a sort of combination of food borrowed from Stars and sort of a technique and a service format borrowed from the taquerias.

Steve Ells

StarsFoodServiceCombinationIdea

I hated L.A. when I first got here. Hated it.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

FirstHereGotHated

I was just such a quiet kid. I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat me up all the time, introduced me to boxing. I found boxing to be a sport that I felt safe in because I controlled what was in those four squares.

Sugar Ray Leonard

TimeBrotherMeGymDownQuiet

If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?

Trey Gowdy

PowerLawYouTurnOffCertain

Whatever plays are called, I'm just going out there and doing my job.

Rob Gronkowski

JobDoingWhateverOutGoingJust

The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!

Robert Walpole

PatriotismSpringLostTrueWhyUp

I could always flip between emotions and be available to suddenly do something new. I think it's a part of playing, and you hang onto it when you're a kid.

Dominic Monaghan

ThinkYouEmotionsNewKidAlways

There are certain functions that a writer has to do. In a time of crisis, it is great to have heroic poems, as it was in the Irish Revolution. It's great to have great songs, because people need something to sing when they are marching. That's OK, but it should be on the side. It's not the ultimate thing.

Derek Walcott

GreatTimePeopleRevolutionCrisis

I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous.

Christopher Parker

GreatPeopleMeFamousFeelActing

I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be.

Corey Haim

BestPlaceLos AngelesLivedWhich

I don't like having debts. I don't like buying anything that I can't buy in cash.

CM Punk

BuyCashAnythingBuyingLikeDebts

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