Eiichiro Oda Quotes
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.
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I started doing stand-up in college.
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I'd have to say the biggest transformation would be my schedule. I'm really, really busy, but it's a lot of fun.
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We've put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIV/AIDS is like an earthquake that's lasted 30 years and touched every country on the planet. We have such incredible capacity to think about the future, it's time we used it to predict biological threats. Otherwise we'll be blindsided again and again.
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I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.
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Contract year or not a contract year, I'm playing the exact same way and focused on the exact same things.
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It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.
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If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.
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If you say, 'I don't want to offend anyone,' then don't get on stage. Just ask yourself, 'Do I think it is right? Do I think it is offensive? And do I think that everyone is okay to hear this? If I truly believe this, then I should go and do this.'
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Tax reform done right will improve incentives to invest in U.S. production and to repatriate profits.
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I'm on the very blackest part of the black list.
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Having family time to reflect on your day is the best.
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Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.
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I had a fan make me a silver wolf-tooth necklace. That was really great.
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For me, Paul Simon has always been an incredible songwriter, as he writes very complicated songs that sound very simple, and he makes it look so easy when it's not.
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Most people assume that my style is so outlandish and out there, but the reality is I like very classic pieces just rendered unusually.
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I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.
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The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.
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I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men and some other animals.
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Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
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Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.
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It's fun. When we win, we don't have to look at the standings. When we lose, we have to hope that someone else lost.
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If I get reincarnated…, I wanna become a clam.
