Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.
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From Texas to New Hampshire and everywhere in between, we know that support for policies such as expanded background checks continue to be popular in both parties.
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My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.
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There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
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In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
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Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
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I request the audience to not mix cinema with politics.
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After Year 12, I went to Vancouver for my gap year and met an agent who told me to lose 25 kg.
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Entitled people drive me insane. The world owes you nothing! Get over it!
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There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.
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Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country.
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It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act; in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.
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A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson, and that he saved me in every way that a person can be saved. I don't even have a picture of him. He exists now only in my memory.
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When the Italians play the Germans it'll be fascinating. Mightn't be very good football but it'll be great psychology.
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The idiot.
