Nisio Isin (NisiOisiN) Quotes
If we turn a blind eye to the fact that your opinion is entirely wrong, you're quite right.
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party.
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When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.
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Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.
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I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
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Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
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A few honest men are better than numbers.
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Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
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If you go through any culture that has had wars, go to the bomb shelters, and you'll hear some amazing stories. Yes, it's a necessary thing that we actually both distract ourselves and it's a way to bond.
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I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.
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It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.
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I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
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Germany was very strict; there was this phrase ‘serious music’. But in New York, there was no barrier – people were only interested in whether music was wild and interesting and beautiful.
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A people [America] that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and citizens for limited, bloody ground action, and then to engage in it, is folly verging on the criminal.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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Cutting down on water use doesn't mean cutting down on outdoor activities or neglecting your lawn. These are simple steps that keep water use low when it matters the most.
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If we turn a blind eye to the fact that your opinion is entirely wrong, you're quite right.
