Masayoshi Son Quotes
A person's life is over in 50, 100 years. But a company lives on through the people it is composed of, and SoftBank group has to survive even after I'm gone.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov -
Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
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I don't want any of my records to sound like one style throughout. That's why I choose different grooves and songs: tunes that are sensitive and slow as well as pieces that are abstract and fast. The approach I want to take with my records is to give the listener a variety of grooves, concepts, and composers.
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A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter, Hannah, said when she was three years old. After the morning service was over one Sunday, Hannah tugged on her mom's skirt and asked. "Mommy, why do some people in church have lights over their heads and some don't?" At the time, I remember thinking two things: First, I would've knelt down and asked Hannah, "Did I have a light over my head? Please say yes!" I also wondered what Hannah had seen, and whether she had seen it because, like my son, she had a childlike faith.
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Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.
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I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.
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A lot of times, I put my own personal health to the side, focusing on work or family or getting ahead. At the end of the day, you're just exhausted on your couch and haven't made that doctor's appointment, didn't make that phone call, and feel terrible.
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A person's life is over in 50, 100 years. But a company lives on through the people it is composed of, and SoftBank group has to survive even after I'm gone.
