Takeru Kobayashi Quotes
I basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours.
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Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
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I don't like to talk about girlfriend stuff. It's not necessary. I try to keep my relationships separate from everything else.
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My first album was completed in three months.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.
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You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.
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Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.
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My life is quite physical anyway. When you are three-foot-six you kind of have to climb stuff now and again, and you find yourself in quite precarious situations just to manage in what is quite a big world.
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I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It's close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.
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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
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I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
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I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Canterbury. But I worked part-time all the way through high school: first with a paper round, then at a fast-food outlet, a video store and a hardware store.
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My bike is my gym, my wheelchair and my church all in one. I'd like to ride my bike all day long but I've got this thing called a job that keeps getting in the way.
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It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when they can be taught in a week, and better understood and retained, by sixth-grade students. Child-centeredness does not mean lack of rigor or standards; it does mean finding the best match between curricula and children's developing interests and abilities.
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Challenge yourself; it’s the only path which leads to growth.
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I basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours.
