S. I. Hayakawa Quotes
The great thing about the United States is our ability to absorb foreign people and make them a part of us.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.
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So people thought once Obama got into office that racism was over with. But, what we ended up learning was that it just came more into the light.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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When I heard Charlie Parker, I knew that that was going to be the new wave, the new way to play jazz. From that point on, I was sold with... the idea of bebop.
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He gets hurt by the smallest touch. It'll be okay, as long as there will finally be a day. Eventually, one day. It will be good if all our burdens would finally be released. I really hope you can do it. I hope you two can both live happily.
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The great thing about the United States is our ability to absorb foreign people and make them a part of us.
