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'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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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 know your kind, he said. What’s wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.
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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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There isn't an amount of money you could offer me to do reality TV. I would rather get my job back on the building site. Or I could own a construction business. Maybe I could retire to my house in Long Island and take up painting, like Captain Beefheart. A crazy recluse: I like that idea.
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When I was a teenager, I felt my life was constrained by rules, school, my parents. I wanted to feel like I was empowered and different; that's why superheroes, comics, manga, and video games filled my needs. When I got older, I realized power is not free; it comes with responsibility.
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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
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You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.
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A number of us had conversations with the Kerry campaign about what he was going to say about CAFE. What he told us was that he did not want to sacrifice jobs and that he wanted to work with the auto industry to achieve that goal.
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I think often people don't realize the great diversity of Southern writing because in their minds, if you're not from the South, it can seem regional and small, and of course that's not the case at all when you start to read the work.
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Hangeul is perhaps the most scientific system of writing in general use in any country.
