Chieko N. Okazaki (Chieko Nishimura Okazaki) Quotes
Be spiritually independent enough that your relationship with the Savior doesn't depend on your circumstances or on what other people say and do. Have the spiritual independence to be a Mormon--the best Mormon you can--in your own way. Not the bishop's way. Not the Relief Society president's way. Your way.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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This phrase, 'culture jamming,' was very much in vogue in the 1990s when these superbrands sort of emerged and started kind of projecting their names onto ever more surfaces.
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What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.
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Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! That's what change looks like.
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If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.
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I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.
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If someone is talented, he or she will get work in the industry.
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Courses can, and should, incorporate the excitement and fun of programming games, apps or even real digital devices.
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I am who I am. There’s no facade. No put-on. And being voted sexiest doesn’t concern me. Maybe that’s the sexy part.
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People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.
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There's always some pressure to achieve something. You make a pilot, but you don't know if you're going to get a show. And then, you make a show, but you don't know if people are going to watch. And then, people watch, but you don't know if enough people are watching.
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Be spiritually independent enough that your relationship with the Savior doesn't depend on your circumstances or on what other people say and do. Have the spiritual independence to be a Mormon--the best Mormon you can--in your own way. Not the bishop's way. Not the Relief Society president's way. Your way.
