Gedde Watanabe Quotes
I still feel like there are a lot of things in me that people haven't seen. My soul hasn't been bared yet.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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I always drive like a madman.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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My mother hid the struggle from us children. She complained about her salary, and she had a tough time. Although she became a headmistress, she still had to do a lot of sewing. The more I think about her, the more remarkable I realise she was. And she understood straight away when I said that I wanted to write.
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Character is incredibly jagged, and incredibly contextualized, even to the point where I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it.
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The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
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The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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I still feel like there are a lot of things in me that people haven't seen. My soul hasn't been bared yet.
