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 tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the 'state of emergency' in which we live is not the exception but the rule.
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Some of my corresponents seem to think that I can work wonders. Let me say as a devotee of truth that I have no such gift. All the power I may have comes from God. But He does not work directly. He works through His numberless agencies. In this case it is the Congress.
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I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.
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A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'
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Without me, Scrubs would be worse than the holocaust. But with me in it, it's turned into the lolocaust.
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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.