Akio Toyoda Quotes
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.
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Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.
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I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.
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We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
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My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman.
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Our worst instincts as human beings have to do with our carelessness with natural resources, and when the body itself becomes just one more of those resources, how will we treat it? Will we treat it with such indifference and with such depersonalization that it becomes more like a very fancy car than a repository of the self?
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I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.
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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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I respect my father as a father, but I also respect him as an honorable chairman.
