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Small: Give the peasants neither life nor death - Ieyasu Tokugawa
"Give the peasants neither life nor death"
Ieyasu Tokugawa, Statesman
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Small: Design is not for philosophy its for life - Issey Miyake
Issey Miyake
"Design is not for philosophy it's for life"
Issey Miyake, Designer
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Small: Well, what Im doing is really clothing. Im not doing sculpture - Issey Miyake
Issey Miyake
"Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture"
Issey Miyake, Designer
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Small: I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked - Issey Miyake
Issey Miyake
"I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked"
Issey Miyake, Designer
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Small: From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes.
Issey Miyake
"From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh"
Issey Miyake, Designer
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Small: The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, its reuse - Issey Miyake
Issey Miyake
"The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse"
Issey Miyake, Designer
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Small: I very much like dance and dancers - Issey Miyake
Issey Miyake
"I very much like dance and dancers"
Issey Miyake, Designer
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Small: Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever - Ieyasu Tokugawa
"Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever"
Ieyasu Tokugawa, Statesman
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Small: Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand - Issey Mi
Issey Miyake
"Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand"
Issey Miyake, Designer
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Small: Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons.
Issey Miyake
"Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything - hats, socks, shirts. It's the first step in the process"
Issey Miyake, Designer
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Small: A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life - Issey Miya
Issey Miyake
"A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life"
Issey Miyake, Designer
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Small: To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if youre not intere
Issey Miyake
"To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if you're not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines - ones that are no longer used"
Issey Miyake, Designer
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Small: One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who
Issey Miyake
"One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else"
Issey Miyake, Designer
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Small: I have worked with several dance companies - Issey Miyake
Issey Miyake
"I have worked with several dance companies"
Issey Miyake, Designer
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Small: Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room
"Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair"
Ieyasu Tokugawa, Statesman
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Small: Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not - Ieyasu Tokugawa
"Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not"
Ieyasu Tokugawa, Statesman
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Small: You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them
Issey Miyake
"You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them - twist, twist, twist the pleats, sometimes three or four persons twist together and put it all in the machine to cook it"
Issey Miyake, Designer
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Small: I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because its easy to work with, to wash, to take care of,
Issey Miyake
"I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start"
Issey Miyake, Designer
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Small: We can also cut by heat - heat punch. And we also can cut by cold - extreme cold. When you cut with heat, it m
Issey Miyake
"We can also cut by heat - heat punch. And we also can cut by cold - extreme cold. When you cut with heat, it makes a mark. With cold, no mark. It depends on the fabric"
Issey Miyake, Designer
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Small: Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing
Issey Miyake
"Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important"
Issey Miyake, Designer
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Small: By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14 - Issey Miyake
Issey Miyake
"By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14"
Issey Miyake, Designer
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Small: When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through - Ieyasu Tokug
"When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through"
Ieyasu Tokugawa, Statesman
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Small: Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden - Ieyasu Tokugawa
"Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden"
Ieyasu Tokugawa, Statesman
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Small: Find fault with thyself rather than with others - Ieyasu Tokugawa
"Find fault with thyself rather than with others"
Ieyasu Tokugawa, Statesman
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Small: I will always be someone who is trying to become better - Kenji Miyazawa
Kenji Miyazawa
"I will always be someone who is trying to become better"
Kenji Miyazawa, Poet
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Small: Not just the rich and the strong, but everyone must share happiness equally - Kenji Miyazawa
Kenji Miyazawa
"Not just the rich and the strong, but everyone must share happiness equally"
Kenji Miyazawa, Poet
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Small: To be of the earth is to know the restlessness of being a seed the darkness of being planted the struggle towa
Kenji Miyazawa
"To be of the earth is to know the restlessness of being a seed the darkness of being planted the struggle toward the light the pain of growth into the light the joy of bursting and bearing fruit the love of being food for someone the scattering of your seeds the decay of the seasons the mystery of death and the miracle of birth"
Kenji Miyazawa, Poet
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Small: If you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see
Kenji Miyazawa
"If you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see"
Kenji Miyazawa, Poet
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Small: Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea
"Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea"
Yoshio Taniguchi, Architect
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Small: Kids just dont read any more. They spend much more time with video games. Its just hard to get kids to read an
"Kids just don't read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It's just hard to get kids to read anything. Book sales have dropped dramatically, too. I think 90% of the books are bought only by 5% of the US population"
Stan Sakai, Cartoonist
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Small: I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste - Stan Sakai
"I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste"
Stan Sakai, Cartoonist
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Small: I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I cant do it, some other game designer will - Shige
"I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will"
Shigeru Miyamoto, Designer
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Small: The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, Id do it i
"The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days"
Ayumi Hamasaki, Musician
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Small: In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didnt have the mental room to
"In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself"
Ayumi Hamasaki, Musician
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Small: I became a Catholic against my will - Shusaku Endo
Shusaku Endo
"I became a Catholic against my will"
Shusaku Endo, Author
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Small: I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow -
"I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow"
Kiichi Miyazawa, Politician
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Small: No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes d
"No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it"
Konosuke Matsushita, Businessman
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Small: The most important thing is that its much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club.
"The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it"
Ikue Mori, Musician
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Small: I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didnt last long - Ikue Mori
"I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long"
Ikue Mori, Musician
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Small: I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation - Ikue Mori
"I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation"
Ikue Mori, Musician
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