Hakuun Yasutani Quotes
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
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During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation - namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins - was a central topic in molecular biology.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
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I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
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The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.
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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
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I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
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I don't wanna be a rock star. I don't believe in rock stars. If you really examine what goes with being a rock star, I've avoided that really well.
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If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.
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Anything that consoles is fake.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.
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There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.
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It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.
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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
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We've been waiting 30 years to end the lunacy of nine demigods on the Supreme Court deciding every burning social issue of the day for us, loyal subjects in a judicial theocracy. We don't want someone who will decide those issues for us - but decide them 'our' way. If we did, a White House bureaucrat with good horse sense might be just the ticket.
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I work 90 hours a week. I work 5 to 9, it's not 9 to 5.
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We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represent the continuance of social values and institutions, and his permission to act is much more seriously limited than the villain's.
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Losing the PR battles, particularly about healthcare, translated into losing his Democratic majorities in Congress, beginning with a Republican landslide in the midterm election of 2010.
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Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.
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A soulmate is someone you can completely be yourself with. Someone with whom you share unconditional love and when you look into each other's eyes, you know that you are home.
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Whatever you can conceive or imagine is but a fragment of yourself.
