Naoto Kan Quotes
After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I wouldn't ever pose naked... I'm fine to do bikinis and certainly lingerie if I feel it's done tastefully... cute like Victoria's Secret, but nothing like raunchy or overly sexual.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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You have 22 episodes to start from zero to hero; you can really take a nice, big, long arc. In a film, it's tough to do that - you only have 90 minutes.
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The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.
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Everybody has their own little thing, but I don't do that. But my wife might take care of my nails or something, but I'm always groomed, I'm always, making sure I smell good.
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It is a favourite maxim of mine that history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object. That is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast of the future,
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After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.
