Akira Suzuki Quotes
I learned many things from Professor Brown, including his philosophy toward research, but there is one thing he said that I recall with particular clarity: 'Do research that will be in the textbooks.' It is not easy to do such work, but this has remained my motto.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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I see myself as a story teller.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for a whole week... We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
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I read a lot of scripts, and there's a lot of good writing and a lot of OK writing and a lot of crappy writing. And even with the really good writing, it doesn't necessarily speak to me.
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I have always had this secret fantasy of being a Bourne girl or Bond girl, and I've never even gotten called in on one of those roles.
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Somebody should tell the president of Mexico that when he appears on American television, he should speak English.
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It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.
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I learned many things from Professor Brown, including his philosophy toward research, but there is one thing he said that I recall with particular clarity: 'Do research that will be in the textbooks.' It is not easy to do such work, but this has remained my motto.
