V. Bozeman Quotes
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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I don't like controversy.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
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I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it. It was stress relieving.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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Few things are as essential as education.
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I did host the Jim Rome show with Jerry Ferrara for three hours when he was on vacation. Three hours is a long time. Think about how long that is. It was tricky, but it was a great experience.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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I've just had some of the worst situations with the most beautiful girls who I just could not stand talking to anymore. The physical only lasts for so long.
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We had been affected by the fact that the film world was a man's world in Europe as much as here, in America actually.
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It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.
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I really learned that you should seize the moment; you should be present in the moment.
