Takeru Kobayashi Quotes
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In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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I have played cricket on my own terms.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work.
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CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.
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As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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Before the Beatles, America was musically a very conservative country. You can see film footage of people at a baseball game, they all had hats and ties on, and the women were dressed up like they were going to church. That was the America that I started getting interested in musically.
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Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage; an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone.
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All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
