Kenko Yoshida Quotes
If man were never to fade away... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.
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I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?
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Drama was all I ever wanted to do. There was no plan B!
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People sense that our reaction to phenomena such as epidemics or religious war is not that different to how we reacted to plagues or to battles a millennia ago.
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At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.
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We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
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Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.
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When you go to a show, Americans in New York are very proper, much more so than the French. Everything is perfect. Their hair, the nails, everything. The look. Everything is perfection.
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I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.
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The London property market has excellent investment opportunities.
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Né spegner può, per starne l'acqua, il fuoco,Né può stato mutar, per mutar loco.
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We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a 'dark continent' for psychology.
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The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.
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If man were never to fade away... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.
