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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In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an erotomania only intensified by the lusting for an upstart savior.
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The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure. It is produced by a creative act. Once a theoretical idea has been acquired, one does well to hold fast to it until it leads to an untenable conclusion.
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I always loved the retail entertainment sector, like FAO Schwartz, where it's a little more exciting than just going into a little corner deli candy place.
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The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city.
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The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided.
