Bankei Yōtaku Quotes
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.
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The strongest institution in the hands of the European Union is the euro.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
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I'm still learning my craft.
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I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.
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As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.
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It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.
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I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
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Values are more important than money.
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Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.
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I didn't have many friends; I might not have had any friends. But it all turned out good in the end, because when you aren't popular and you don't have a social life, it gives you more time to focus on your future.
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Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.
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I worked in a restaurant and in a nightclub cloakroom.
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I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
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My Emmy is in my china closet. People don't really look at it, though.
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The secret to happiness is to be working at your passion. If you want to be miserable, lead a desperate life like everybody else where they drag their asses to work everyday because they hate their job.
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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
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Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety.
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When your study of Buddhism is through you find you haven’t anything new.