Akihito Quotes
I hope that knowledge about past facts will continue to be passed down in a proper manner ... and will be used for future benefit.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.
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The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.
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The best way to propel the economy may be to encourage different parts of the country to go their own way.
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Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.
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We have to acknowledge that those past human right abuses existed and so we can't go forward without looking back, and understanding that was enormous problem, not just for America but also problem for the Indonesian people...
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The question for Dropbox is whether, when they run out of private sources for funding, they will be able to maintain that valuation when they go to public sources for funding and their valuation is set on the public markets.
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I hope that knowledge about past facts will continue to be passed down in a proper manner ... and will be used for future benefit.
