Chieko N. Okazaki (Chieko Nishimura Okazaki) Quotes
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I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
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What drives the creative person is that we see it all.
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In the urgent aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, with more attacks thought to be imminent, analysts wanted to use 'contact chaining' techniques to build what the NSA describes as network graphs of people who represented potential threats.
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It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.
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We shot 'Party Girl' on film, and I remember being told, 'We need to get this in two takes because we don't have a lot of film in the mag right now!'
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Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.
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I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.
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Nobody is perfect, but life is about choices.
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I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.
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I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.
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Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.
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Fear God, yes, but don't be afraid of Him.
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My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood.
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If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much, or when one suffers things which one is able to avoid and yet does not avoid. Christ endured much on the cross, and did so patiently, because when he suffered he did not threaten; he was led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth.
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Repentance is powerful spiritual medicine. There are few spiritual ills it will not cure. Each sin we leave behind through our faith in the living Christ-both those of commission and those of omission-opens spiritual doors. As we feel the potency of repentance, we better understand why Christ admonished the early missionaries of this dispensation to "say nothing but repentance unto this generation."
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What would Christ do if he were in my situation?
