Shinzo Abe Quotes
Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
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I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
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I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
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You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.
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I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.
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I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.
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My solo playing utilizes the deployment of suggestive psychic rhythms. I'll state these throughout a given piece and play thematic improvisations on top of that. I like to suggest that rhythmic movement without always playing it. I like to create openings that I can step into.
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I try to eat fruit and be healthy.
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Try to see what attitudes rule your day, then ask what kind of a day you usually have.
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No, I don't think 'The Wire' screwed up my career at all.
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So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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My parents called me the WB frog. Because when I was onstage, I would do this whole song and dance, but if my parents had a family friend over, I would just go hide in the bedroom.
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I feel playful aggression is important for children because they have to deal with all kinds of anger and aggression in their lives.
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The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities.
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What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.
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In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar.
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Certainly there is no way to direct the effects of monetary policy at a single class of assets while leaving other financial markets and the broader economy untouched. One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.
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Love is the core of everything - nothing survives without it.
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You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I will ruin you.
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Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.
