Edwin O. Reischauer Quotes
Hangeul is perhaps the most scientific system of writing in general use in any country.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
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To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
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Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.
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People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'
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I skipped kindergarten because I was reading at a pretty high level. That's a weird and cocky thing to say, but I was real sharp, and I knew that early on.
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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How do you trust a prime minister who said one thing before the elections and does exactly the opposite after the elections?
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I know your kind, he said. What’s wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.
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All those little acting rules you get, one of the interesting ones is, 'Play the opposite. Don't play 'victim.'
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In all honesty, I didn't love reading when I was a kid. I'd rather be running around in the woods or doing my best to scare the pants off all the children in the neighborhood by pretending my house was haunted or making them play Bloody Mary in the bathroom.
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Under natural conditions, the soil does not lose its fixed nitrogen.
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The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.
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One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.
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Hangeul is perhaps the most scientific system of writing in general use in any country.
