Nagisa X Quotes & Sayings

The God way. Talking about God this and God that. Fuck God, he had actually wanted to say. Fuck God for having made this world, fucked be his name, now and for fucking ever, fuck God for our lives, fuck God for not saving us, fuck God for not being here and for not saving the men burning on the fucking bamboo. — Richard Flanagan

'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'. — John Lennon

To the leaders of the cinema still to come, I can offer only a few words drawn from my modest experience. You must ceaselessly formulate and sharpen your critical views, both of others and of yourselves. — Nagisa Oshima

He liked the English and their peculiarities. He liked their stoicism under pressure; on the wall in his factory he kept a copy of a war poster emblazoned with the Crown of King George and underneath the words Keep Calm and Carry On. — Natasha Solomons

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle. — Ken Blanchard

I privilege the music over the lyrics. — Duncan Sheik

And madness freed me — Paulo Coelho

Like every mother, my wish - every birthday - is for my children to stay healthy (and) for my family to remain healthy. — Angelina Jolie

I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money. — Reggie Jackson

To fill yourself with bliss, today is the best time to start loving yourself deeply. — Debasish Mridha

The concept of 'obscenity' is tested when one dares to look at something that he has an unbearable desire to see but has forbidden himself to look at. When one feels that everything that one had wanted to see has been revealed, 'obscenity' disappears, the taboo disappears as well, and there is a certain liberation. — Nagisa Oshima

When everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars — Isabel Allende

My hatred for Japanese cinema includes absolutely all of it. — Nagisa Oshima

There is only one unpardonable sin
deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven. — Truman Capote

It doesn't matter to me if it has a surprise ending or not. I usually go for the material or the project. — Donnie Wahlberg

I do not like to be called a samurai, but I admit that I have an image of myself as a fighter. I would like to fight against all authorities and powers. — Nagisa Oshima

You have to fail, man, but you cannot allow failure to stop you from doing what you must do. Failing is just as good as succeeding in a lot of ways. It's how you react to it all. You can react to success the wrong way and be a total failure. Or you can react to losing with your whole heart, learn from it, and be a huge success. In stand-up, I've learned to know when I'm burning it up or when I'm being so-so. That's experience. I learn every single time I'm on a stage. — J. B. Smoove

But the punishment-body relation is not the same as it was in the torture during public executions. The body now serves as an instrument or intermediary: if one intervenes upon it to imprison it, or to make it work, it is in order to deprive the individual of a liberty that is regarded both as a right and as property. The body, according to this penality, is caught up in a system of constraints and privations, obligations and prohibitions. Physical pain, the pain of the body itself, is no longer the constituent element of the penalty. From being an art of unbearable sensations punishment has become an economy of suspended rights. — Michel Foucault

Nothing that is expressed is obscene. What is obscene is what is hidden. — Nagisa Oshima

I think it's awful that the state of Oklahoma a couple of years ago passed this law to give the same tuition to illegals as they do to people who are residents of Oklahoma. I think it's wrong. — Ernest Istook