Aya Nakahara Quotes
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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Let us learn from the lessons of September 11 and not wait for a major strike before we act. We must work together - Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House, government and the private sector - to make our country a safer and more prosperous place.
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I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.
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I started working at age thirteen. I'm a product of public schools, I'm a product of a public university. I started my first company when I was 21. I've subsequently never worked for anybody else. I started that first business when I was still in college.
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
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All pitchers are liars or crybabies.
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I would hate to be on a plane every day.
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When it comes to creativity and to leadership, we need introverts doing what they do best.
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I'm not a really firm believer in theatre that is 'about anything.' I don't think theatre can be about anything other than the people who show up and the value that they hold.
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If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible... now there's the complete package of womanhood.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.
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I think if someone were to ask me to put in one sentence what it is that I do, I would say that I try to be in action more than in words.
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Ohh! Wow!! Ohh!! Wow!! Those the only two words you know? Sounds like a dirty movie.
