Masayoshi Son Quotes
I know I should not be a hindrance to SoftBank's future growth and that I need to pass on the baton to the younger generation.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
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No chemical carcinogen is nearly so important in causing human cancer as animal protein.
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely.
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I think for most people, the audience probably couldn't tell the difference, but I know they [shots of visual effects] can be better. And the people working know they can be more precise. I'm still doing another round of sound mixing and color timing, pretty technical stuff. I think the movie [Life of Pi] is really presentable, nothing was left out that would take you out of the movie. I just need to perfect the job and I still have two weeks to go [to deliver final cut to Fox].
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Every politician deep inside is authoritarian. If the person doesn't have ambition, that's not a politician. Society needs to put every ambitious, every effective politician into such a position that it helps - that this person helps improve society. That's why I'm always talking about need to change the system rather than should we go with Navalny or Gudkov or Yavlinsky or Khodorkovsky. We all have our ambitions. We're all ambitious people.
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I know I should not be a hindrance to SoftBank's future growth and that I need to pass on the baton to the younger generation.
