Martin Jacques Quotes
The election of Shinzo Abe as the leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic party and now prime minister will have profound repercussions for Japan and East Asia. Most western commentary during the premiership of Junichiro Koizumi has been concerned with the extent to which Japan has allowed a freer rein to market forces.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I'm a proud family man.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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Mike D'Antoni was a cool coach, but he was just a bad person. He can coach. He was just mean for no reason.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don't get crazy, see what happens.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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The tale of 'Point Break' is about doing what you love and committing to what you love. It's relevant to me as a Venezuelan, to you as an American, to any Chinese person watching the film.
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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Here's the thing, back in the day, a lot of guys would make fun of me, that I would sing and dance, that I was a cheerleader. But I kept my head on straight. I had goals.
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I do think it's possible to change for the better.
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New York has a deep culture of house and dance music, and to be able to tap into that is my way of shutting off. I go to friends' parties and local spots around the area: places I can go to, have a dance, and forget about being an actor and the attention.
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You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.
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In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.
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The election of Shinzo Abe as the leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic party and now prime minister will have profound repercussions for Japan and East Asia. Most western commentary during the premiership of Junichiro Koizumi has been concerned with the extent to which Japan has allowed a freer rein to market forces.
