Masayoshi Son Quotes
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.
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Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.
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In society at large, nerds are law-abiding, caring, fundamentally good folk who keep the wheels of civilization grinding.
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Politics is cyclical.
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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
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I have no intention of making small bets.
