Nanao Sakaki Quotes
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.
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When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there.
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I would love to be bilingual. I think having a second or third language at my bidding would open up the world in amazing ways.
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Because, first of all, we were becoming aware during that tour that there was a group of people that was following the band around, and they weren't interested in coming in to the shows, they were just interested in hangin' out outside and tryin' to break in.
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All words, in every language, are metaphors.
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
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To stay young,
