Tadashi Shoji Quotes
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.
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At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.
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Time puts things in proper perspective.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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A movie set actually can be a good place to have a family atmosphere.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.
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So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.
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I would like somebody confident who takes care of his business, is strong, healthy. Somebody that loves their family and treats their friends right - and treats me right.
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For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus.
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I design to make women feel confident and beautiful.
