Yoshihiko Noda Quotes
The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.
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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
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On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
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There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.
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I've had a great run and have been blessed not only with a great career, but also, thanks to all of you nice people buying video games, t-shirts, action figures, collected editions - and watching all those movies and TV shows - my royalty income allows me financial security for life.
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Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.
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There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the idea that it's great to be a freak, and the freak always wins. So I think English girls are a lot less scared of being the freak or looking like an idiot.
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We are not known by our bank balances or who our parents are. It is ultimately we who have to prove ourselves. It is not important to own a particular brand of car. But we should be a brand in ourselves. Each of us is unique.
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The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.
