Shinzo Abe Quotes
In Japan, usually, once you become prime minister, you do not have a second chance. Probably the reason why that was not the case this time is because Japan is facing an increasingly challenging situation.
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It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.
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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
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I don't drink hot beverages.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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'Bagdad Cafe' was a film that changed many, many people's lives... how they saw themselves and how they looked at their life situation. I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives, and that's wonderful.
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Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
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The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility.
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Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.
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What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.
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I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
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I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.
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Some people may have their doubts about me. But I feel like there's no shot too hard for me to take.
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I like that totally mixed up kind of eclectic group of personal props and bits of costume and I think the fun of doing that is where I was very lucky with Doctor Who.
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One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.
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To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.
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I do not want to have a cell phone. I do not want it for cultural reasons. I do not want to be available all the time. I want to have time to think and to touch somebody, and have a meal across my kitchen table without a cell phone, being constantly on tweets.
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She had known then that there were things one was more afraid of being without with ease than possessing with pain.
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In Japan, usually, once you become prime minister, you do not have a second chance. Probably the reason why that was not the case this time is because Japan is facing an increasingly challenging situation.
