Pat Morita Quotes
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.
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When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.
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The growth model China has relied on for the last 30 years - one predicated on low-cost exports to the rest of the world and investment in resource intensive heavy manufacturing - is unlikely to serve it well in the next 30 years.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as well, such as writing, directing, and/or camera operating. Being on set is like being on a playground. I go from one thing to the next, and I've learned so much and hope to continue learning.
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The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only are we telling the same stories over and over again - which are amazing, George Washington Carver is incredible, there's nobody like Frederick Douglass - but there are so many.
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I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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No one needs anything; they have to want it.
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There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.
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Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.
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My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer; I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special; he's still one of my favorite writers.
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The nightmare of a film career, or at least the challenge of one, is that you're rarely going to get the opportunity to explore character because once people see you in one thing, you know, they want to see that again.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.
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It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.
