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.
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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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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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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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But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing.
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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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Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.
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If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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I'm a terrible pessimist... I really don't think we're going to make it. But every so often, there's some little ray of hope.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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.
