Chieko N. Okazaki (Chieko Nishimura Okazaki) Quotes
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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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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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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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You will never be greater than the thoughts that dominate your mind.
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My own death threats have declined considerably.
