Joichi Ito Quotes
When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources.
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Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
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When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.
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"If I would have given way to an arbitrary way, for to have all laws changed according to the power of the sword, I needed not to have come here; and therefore I tell you (and I pray God it be not laid to your charge) that I am the martyr of the people."[
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When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.
