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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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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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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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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Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.
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A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon from one to five ruined for him already.
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We played a festival in Ireland once, and in the middle of 'New Slang,' the Scissor Sisters kicked in across the field on this mega stage. It was a little distracting. It was hard to keep track of what I was supposed to sing.
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I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.
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I was so invested in ballet, and it was my entire life. And then it was realizing that I didn't want it to be my entire life forever. And then it was this very specific life, and I wanted to learn about other things. So I modeled to fill the time because dancing was very much a job, even when I was 14 years old.
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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.
