Tadashi Shoji Quotes

When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.

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• To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

  

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• When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.

  

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• As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
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• I'm a good Catholic boy.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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• You don't want to meet anybody in Cannes. It's the worst place, I think, to meet somebody - one of the worst places.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
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• I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.

  

  Inbee Park
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• I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

  

  Kate Moss
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• The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.

  

  A. N. Wilson
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• I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

  

  J. J. Abrams
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• You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.

  

  Ziggy Marley
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• If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.

  

  Vijay Mallya
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• God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
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• One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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• Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
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• I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
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• I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
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• You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.

  

  Gary Sinise
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• My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs - because, full disclosure, I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then I'm energized but not so awake that the critical voice clicks on, the voice that sometimes says, 'Don't write that,' or, 'Man, that sentence is terrible - you should give up and go pet the cats.'

  

  Jeff Vandermeer
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• I don't want to be a bust.

  

  Malik Jackson
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• When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
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  • Me
  • Inspired