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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She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn't see it in themselves.
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I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.
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The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.
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Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
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People used to say my son looked like a Mexican Biggie. And when he was first born, memories of Biggie... you know, we didn't always have the greatest days. For at least half the length of our marriage we were separated, so everyday was definitely not a good day.
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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.
