Eiichiro Oda Quotes
What I really wanted wasn't fame. All I wanted was to know whether or not I should've been been born.
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.
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If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.
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I don't go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like going, 'Uhhh, I'm done' when I eat.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.
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I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.
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We filmed 'Expelled' in Santa Clarita at an all-girl's school. There were twelve hour days.
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We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
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Zef is the underbelly of the Afrikaans culture, but it also, like, is Afrikaans culture.
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Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.
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I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.
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Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.
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I've continually reminded myself that I never want to change. I could be on the cover of a magazine today, but next week someone else is going to be on that cover. You always have to remain the same person because when those opportunities end, guess what you have? You have you. And if you change from being you, you have nothing anymore.
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Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.
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Stand up and face your fears, or they will defeat you.
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A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.
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I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.
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Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
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My life and my whole eternity belongs to God. All this stuff is temporary. Money, fame, successtemporary. Even life is temporary. Jesusthat's eternal.
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What I really wanted wasn't fame. All I wanted was to know whether or not I should've been been born.
