Akio Morita Quotes
The effect of three things - the new laws, the revision of the tax system, and the elimination of the zaibatsu conglomerates - was to make Japan an egalitarian society for the first time.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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In combat sports, personalities are what draw.
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You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.
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I'm kind of a crazy person about hand sanitizer. I carry the plain ones that smell like aloe, from Target or CVS.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.
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I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
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I like heels and make-up.
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There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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When I first lived in a model apartment... It was two bunk beds to a room, and the bathroom was constantly in use. I was bringing in Lucky Charms cereal, and one day an agent put a stop to that. She said, 'You're making all the girls fat.' They took it off our grocery order. That was the most dramatic thing that happened.
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The president really shouldn't be involved in terms of dictating what course the investigation should take.
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The effect of three things - the new laws, the revision of the tax system, and the elimination of the zaibatsu conglomerates - was to make Japan an egalitarian society for the first time.
