Naoto Kan Quotes
While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.
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Praise Roxane Gay for her big-hearted self-examining intelligence, for her inclusive and forgiving stance, for her courage and determination . . . for saying out loud the things we were thinking, for guiding us back to ourselves and returning to us what was ours all along.
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I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir.
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Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck.
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I learned early on that 'Billy on the Street' is a great lesson in 'Don't judge a book by its cover.'
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Classical music always had a great influence on me. In fact some of my songs have a classical theme in mind.
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While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.
