Uesugi Kenshin Quotes
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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There is nothing more worrisome to ISIS than cooperation between 'the West' and the Muslim world, for it defies the narrative of a clash of civilisations the group is trying to revive.
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I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
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Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.
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I'd like to start writing scripts. I think I'd probably be inclined to write a very dark comedy or a tragic romance. As a kid, I used to write really dark stuff.
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Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live.
