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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Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.
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The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus and a chair that's not obtained from Craigslist that keeps poking into his back.
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Look at electricity in human history - it took a few decades for electricity to really revolutionize the American economy. And the Internet will be the same. At some point in the future, we will arrive at a new era of low-hanging fruit.
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I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.
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I was a bit scared because I came from the acting world. There was a fear that people would think of me kind of as a joke. But really, people think of me as a country artist who can act. That's my favorite compliment.
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Hangeul is perhaps the most scientific system of writing in general use in any country.
