Chieko N. Okazaki (Chieko Nishimura Okazaki) Quotes
When we set aside the burden of judgment, then our hands and hearts are free to serve others with joy. Such service is truly the way of the Christian.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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Our nation is today a powerful nation.
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I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.
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Since government supposedly can do whatever it sets out to do, the president should sign an executive order outlawing death. However, as with all other laws, Congress should be exempt.
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The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.
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Lyrically I'm untouchable, uncrushable. Getting mad blunted in the S-500.
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It is always the teacher who must learn the most … or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.
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If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
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My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.
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People who truly love to sing have to do it all the time.
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In the end I'm the only one who knows me.
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I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.
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It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish slavery as a new institution; or even give any authority to the state governments to establish it as a new institution. The greatest sticklers for slavery do not claim this.
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When in 1969 I became publisher of the 'Washington Post' as well as president of the company, my plate was fuller than ever. I had partly worked myself into the job but not, except for rare occasions, taken hold. I had acquired some sense of business but still relied on others more than most company presidents did.
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You've got what looks like a year-end balance sheet. It's like memorizing an entire Excel file.
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Things you believe are baggage in your life.
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We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.
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... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.
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Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.
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When we set aside the burden of judgment, then our hands and hearts are free to serve others with joy. Such service is truly the way of the Christian.
