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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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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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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My history has been to grow the roots as deeply as you can before going on to the next thing. That's why it took 10 years to go from Union Square Cafe to Gramercy Tavern, and another 10 years to go from Blue Smoke's first location to its second, and five to go from Shake Shack 1 to Shake Shack 2.
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I've never gotten up in front of a Muslim congregation and played the role of a religious leader, and I decline those invitations because that's not what I am.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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The one thing that nobody else in the world can touch is the coffee in Australia.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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America, for me, is the country where, if you have something great to offer, you'll be valued highly.
