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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Trevor Horn has worked with some of the biggest stars there is. And he was happy to do a record with me. He's worked with some amazing people, and then there's little old me walking in.
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I hate digital calendars, so I use pen and paper or the palm of my hand for my daily schedule. I get much more satisfaction out of physically crossing things out than deleting.
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To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.
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When technology extends one of our senses, a new translation of culture occurs as swiftly as the new technology is interiorized. (p. 47)
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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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.
