Tadashi Yanai Quotes
I might look successful but I've made many mistakes. People take their failures too seriously. You have to be positive and believe you will find success next time.
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I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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With dance and theatre, I think people get very nervous about not knowing the right things. They feel like they've missed something, or that they're not bright enough to watch it. It's not a test.
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When people ask what I'd like to do next, the answer is usually, 'Something with people in rooms.'
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The only valid rule about the proper length of a statement is that it achieve its purpose effectively.
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I might look successful but I've made many mistakes. People take their failures too seriously. You have to be positive and believe you will find success next time.
