Takeru Kobayashi Quotes
Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.
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Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
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These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.
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A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doesn't matter how much you think it's going to be funny. A good horror movie will scare the hell out of you... the moment you sit down and you start being exposed to that story, it's going to freeze your blood.
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Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.
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A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.
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The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
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Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny.
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There were two things that became apparent, pretty quickly into the process. One was that the muscles didn't take as much reconditioning as I thought they would. It was more like voice acting than I thought it would be. You're using your whole body and there are things that are different, but when you are doing a character, even in the booth, nobody is watching but my face will do different things when I do different characters.
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Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.
