Yoshihiko Noda Quotes
I think it is not necessary at this time to put forth a grand vision such as an East Asian Community. What we must do before that is create scenarios for Japan's response in case of a serious territorial incident.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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I'm still learning my craft.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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My father is an amazing person.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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In terms of the stars, the only ones I cast were Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins. I was in Los Angeles working and a lot of this took place on the telephone. I'd met Maggie Smith once and I'd come back-stage, which I'm usually loathe to do because as an actor you don't want people coming back because you want to get home.
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Shooting in Brooklyn is like opening a time capsule. Nothing has changed. Everything looks like it did in the eighties.
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I know that when I was a children's librarian, that was about 1940, boys particularly asked where were the books about kids like us, and there weren't any at that time.
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Play is the best natural resource in a creative economy. Kids need more of it. It is the work of childhood. We hope to intrinsically change the opinion that play is not just a luxury but an absolute necessity for kids' lives.
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I don't write stories about despair. I write stories about hope.
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I think it is not necessary at this time to put forth a grand vision such as an East Asian Community. What we must do before that is create scenarios for Japan's response in case of a serious territorial incident.
