Tadashi Yanai Quotes
America, for me, is the country where, if you have something great to offer, you'll be valued highly.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.
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Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
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Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
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It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.
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The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it.
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The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.
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America, for me, is the country where, if you have something great to offer, you'll be valued highly.
