Yuri Kochiyama Quotes
I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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The Reserve Bank cannot just exist; its ability to say 'no' has to be protected.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
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Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me.
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I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.
