Yasunari Kawabata Quotes
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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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I do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I'd look like Cate Blanchett.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
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There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial.
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The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
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TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.
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The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.
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Researchers have been looking for biomarkers of age for a long time and have failed. People sell tests out there to measure your biological age, and none of them work. There's no evidence that you can measure biological age with any reliability.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.
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I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.
