Yoshihiko Noda Quotes
The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.
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You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
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When you see me on TV, that's about as close to my real personality as you can get.
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I pledge a return to the glory days of old-fashioned absolute dictatorship: Politics and pop culture are going to merge back into one big ugly Frankenstein baby.
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The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided.
