Chiune Sugihara Quotes
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'
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If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.
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I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
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I'm really an outdoorsy girl. People think I can't go anywhere without getting all primped up, but I love to go camping, and I'm totally fine with not doing my hair or makeup, not taking a shower and just hiking.
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Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.
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I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.
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Being in love is the best thing in my life.
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'The Daily Show,' at its core, is the answer to the nightly news.
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It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
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I have lived my whole life with high intensity.
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Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
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Driver's licenses are a crucial national security issue.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
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Probably Lloyd in 'Say Anything' is the closest to me - or to who I was at the time. It was just a great love story about people in the '80s, and we all tried to make it feel as real as possible. It was such a wonderful time. We didn't leave anything in the gym; we put it all out there.
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Do what is right because it is right; and leave it alone.
