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Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.
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You can't win integrity and honor from games. You can only earn them from living a life dedicated to those ideals.
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Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.
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Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.
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My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.
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There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the authorities and to be allowed to express themselves. But he did one of the best war movies I've ever seen - it's called 'Come and See.
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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
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You learn to write by doing it.
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A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.