Akio Morita Quotes
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.
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I have a great office.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
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There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.
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Just because someone looks old doesn't mean he or she is. The skin of some people who spend a lot of time outdoors seems to age very rapidly. Someone can look 80 or 90 and only be 40 to 50.
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Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.
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You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.
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I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
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I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.
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I've directed 'Raisin in the Sun' five times. You keep discovering things. You keep on seeing things in the script that you never saw before. That's what great pieces of art do.
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I want to have a career that evolves as I go on.
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Netflix has always had this interesting ability to get non-mainstream content to be watched by the mainstream.
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I play a lot of nerdy voices.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
