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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President Obama was never going repeal Obamacare - he was not going to be brought to his knees with the threat of a government shutdown.
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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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I always look for my mistakes so I can correct them in the future.
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Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.
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We spend a lot of time talking to our kids about the need to get involved in something.
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'Nothing Left to Lose' was an album that I wrote in my bedroom, and you don't know who is listening or who cares.
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After 50 years in the motion picture business, I'm still learning my trade. This recent shoot of 'Mandie and the Secret Tunnel' was a revelation. The two young directors, Joy Chapman and Owen Smith, represent a group of actors, directors, and cinematographers all over the country that never show up in New York or Hollywood.
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When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles and male bonding, but when the book came out, it was surprising to me that the mental health community embraced it.
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Hangeul is perhaps the most scientific system of writing in general use in any country.
