Masatoshi Koshiba Quotes
Science in textbooks is not fun. But if you start doing science yourself, you will find delight.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.
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Fun is when you're writing a song and you're trying a rough shot at a demo and... it works. That's when it's fun. After that, it's work.
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The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.
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I want to see abstract art move. Especially in the '30s, you had animators doing innovative work, and I was entranced by that. It's basically what you see when you close your eyes, when you fall asleep.
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Science in textbooks is not fun. But if you start doing science yourself, you will find delight.
