Masahiro Tanaka Quotes
I watch golf, just looking at the pros, and I'm in awe of how they play. Not one particular player - maybe all the players.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.
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Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.
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Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
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I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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I don't know how people do this job collaboratively if they don't really get along. You're spending all day every day for months and years on end with somebody.
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I went to department stores, and there was nothing that I really loved. All the shoes were too complicated, too crazy, too ridiculous, too extreme. The platforms were so high; the shoes were so ugly, covered in crystals and feathers and crap. I just thought, 'Maybe somebody wants a beautifully simple, sexy shoe that they can actually walk in.'
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In general, exchange reactions for the lighter isotopes have equilibrium constants sufficiently different from unity, so that the ratios of concentrations of the isotopes in two compounds which are in equilibrium differ by a few per cents in nearly all cases.
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From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I've just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy characters.
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.
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Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?
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Our basic thesis for bitcoin is that it is better than gold.
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The movie - any sports movie - becomes a praise song to life here on earth, to physical existence itself, beyond striving, beyond economic necessity.
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Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.
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There's a certain freedom that comes when people don't expect you to be sexy.
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The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.
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I watch golf, just looking at the pros, and I'm in awe of how they play. Not one particular player - maybe all the players.
