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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When you are in an unpleasant environment that makes you feel uncomfortable, one of the key ways to improve that situation is through design. That's why I think it is so important to help develop and showcase young designers, as they are our future.
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When I wrote the words and I have the music, I felt, wow, you know, this has got to be right. I got to sing it right.
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I don't think about, 'Oh, I'm finally getting my respect,' because I don't care about this.
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I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.
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She'd hidden from the truth of how bad it was because it had seemed so much more painful to deal with the truth.
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Do what is right because it is right; and leave it alone.
