S. I. Hayakawa Quotes
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.
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I'd like to be curvier.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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Too clever is dumb.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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Words change over time. 'Condescending,' for instance, was once a good thing to be. It meant that a person was willing to interact politely with people of lower social ranks. In Jane Austen's world, a lady praised for her condescension was receiving a sincere compliment.
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Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
