Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yoshihiko Noda

I think it is not necessary at this time to put forth a grand vision such as an East Asian Community. What we must do before that is create scenarios for Japan's response in case of a serious territorial incident.

William Kirby

Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.

William Kirby

Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.

William Kirby

East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century.

Vince Cable

We've got to get back on track to working with them. Because if I and my colleagues are going to continue to attract inward investment from overseas - you know particularly from the big Asian countries - they see Britain as a gateway to Europe. They don't want any doubts cast upon that.

Constance Wu

Working on 'Fresh Off the Boat' has been really enlightening to me because it's made me actually think about the roles that Asians and Asian-American women have played in media. Not because I didn't think it was important before, but because before, I was really focused on just paying my rent.

Constance Wu

All the networks have always been willing to have ethnic people as the third or fourth lead or the best friend to the white person. But to actually let a black family or an Asian family carry a show, that's something where there hasn't really been a precedent set in terms of a real financial gain.

Guenael Rodier

The picture is quite clear. We have a situation similar to what we've seen in Asia so far. There are a number of small-size family clusters of disease, including many children that had contact with infected birds, in particular backyard poultry, particularly backyard chickens.

Paul Gray

The overriding negative influence on Asian export prices this year has been the strong growth in Indonesian exports, particularly as this has occurred at a time of limited buying interest in the spot market from the Japanese power utilities.

Glenn Ford

I don't know how it is now but the assistant stage manager had to understudy several parts. You had to be ready to go on at any time if the actor couldn't make it to the play. I didn't think anything of it.

Brad Goreski

I want to keep my clients happy, and the pressure's on me as the boss to manage my three assistants and make sure that everything is getting done. There's less time for tears and more time for bossing people around.

Brad Goreski

If my assistant goes off and becomes successful, and people want to work with him, I'd take that as a compliment that I'd trained them well.

Bill Hader

I was a production assistant in the post department on 'The Surreal Life.' And it's been reported before that I was an assistant editor on 'The Surreal Life.' That is not true.

Bill Hader

I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working as a production assistant knocked that right out of me.

Bill Hader

I'm crazy lucky. I was trying to be a filmmaker. I was doing Second City classes as a way to be creative. I was a PA for a long time. I was working as an assistant editor on 'Iron Chef America' when I got 'SNL.' It was one of those situations where you're concentrating in one thing and the peripheral thing popped.

Christine Pelosi

Once Joe Paterno learned that his former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was showering with a young boy in the Penn State football locker room, he had two choices: think of the child as his own and call police. Or not. He chose the latter.

Martin Nissenbaum

The AMT assistant is a bit limited. They give you a list of things where you're not eligible to use the calculator.

Stuart Miller

The assistant referee was in a better position and saw it was a clear handball. But the referee told him to put his flag down. A decision like that could cost us the title.

Gerry Spence

Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.

Barack Obama

Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.

Jared Bernstein

We have welcomed past efforts by the Bureau to offer alternative poverty measures. Their most recent release, however, ignores critical innovations and omits essential costs like child care for working parents and thus represents a step backwards.

Harold Frazier

We are playing a very important role in the design of the 2010 Census. As a census test site, we are setting the standard for how the Census Bureau counts American Indians all over the United States.

Ellen Sauerbrey

I have a very deep commitment to the fundamental work of this bureau protecting vulnerable people,

Robert Pitofsky

I don't want the Federal Trade Commission to be the thought police, ... I don't want a bureaucrat like me influencing the content of these materials. But, rather, we need to influence the way these materials are marketed.

Muhammad Ali

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.

Warren Riley

We're happy our efforts with the Criminal Intelligence Bureau are paying off.

Erik Molvar

This study is going to change the debate on sage grouse and oil and gas development. The (federal) Bureau of Land Management won't be able to tell the public that (its) standard oil and gas . . . mitigation measures will protect the sage grouse anymore.

Evan G. Galbraith

The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

Judie Brown

The police department was handed this on a silver platter and did nothing. That's how I feel.

Nicolas Roeg

Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.

Lisa Ray

We have talked to the Georgia Department of Agriculture, and they said supplies are not a problem in Georgia at this time,

Allen Benson

We have a letter from the director of the U.S. Geological Survey to the Energy Department supporting the site recommendation. It supports going ahead.

Mayor Rockingham

We have a fine police department but manpower is not up to full complement.

Nancy Chambers

We have been working with the Mississippi Department of Transportation on this and they are the ones who are actually doing it,

Phil Padgett

We're working on it, a lot of DNA testing in that department too, I'll be honest with you. It's not gonna be as strong as it has been in the past, but it can still be respectable and that's our goal: to make sure it never hurts us.

H. Hart

Usually the Public Works Department does one, the parks department and water resources does theirs. It's a value that (county supervisors) will see it all in one place.

Will Yun Lee

The two most exciting things for me to get to work on 'The Wolverine' was getting to work with James Mangold, the director who directed '3:10 to Yuma' and 'Walk the Line' as well as getting to work with Hugh Jackman.

Brian Cox

I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming.

James Gray

The actor always must be in the scene, not above the scene. To communicate any larger ideas is my problem; it's how the narrative is constructed and directed that hopefully does it.

Matthew Bourne

I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s.

Ryan Coogler

I've directed things that other people have written before, and I've written things and given them to other directors. So I'm very versatile in terms of that, and I enjoy all of it.

Thomas Jefferson

Were we to be directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

Patricia Richardson

I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me because all of that energy was directed in a positive way.

Mikhail Bakunin

Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.

Melissa McCarthy

I would love to be directed by more women.

Idris Elba

People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.

Evel Knievel

I have my tombstone already. A tombstone company in the East gave it to me when I jumped Snake Canyon. My plot is in Montana.

David Bailey

I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham.

Brandon Jennings

I've never really been told my game reflects like I'm from Los Angeles. I'm always told that I have more of an East Coast type game.

Dennis Ross

I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Desiree Rogers

I think the Social Office is really the office where East meets West. For those that don't know, the East side is typically the First Lady's side of the house. The West side is typically the President's side of the house.

Barack Obama

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

Alice Walker

I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast.

Goldie Hawn

I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

Will Chase

Look at Greg Jbara! I've watched him work for years, always switching. He's literally a different human being when he's onstage in 'Billy Elliot.' That's the fun of what we do.

Billy Graham

The human heart is the same the world over.

Ellie Goulding

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.

Bonnie Bassler

Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.

David Hanson

The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.

Donald Johanson

When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.

Newt Gingrich

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

Ricky Martin

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

Nina Easton

Reality shows serve up juicy drama out of human shortcomings.

Marlon Wayans

My sister Kim is like Lucille Ball. She's magical in terms of her performance and her writing.

Lilly Singh

I swear Kim Kardashian's first marriage lasted longer than some of my iPhone chargers.

Thomas Hubbard

that a lot of the language he was using about Kim and North Korea would be counterproductive to getting them back to six-party talks.

Dick Pound

I was disappointed that more members thought Kim would have been better than I would.

Mark Latham

Kim didn't talk to Greg, ring him, offer him support in any shape or form, ... I just find that unbelievable.

Tina Brown

I wish my daughter wasn't spending time thinking of Kim Kardashian or Rihanna.

David Letterman

Kim Jong Un's sister got married. That sounds like another Seth Rogen movie, doesn't it?

Kris Humphries

[Kim Kardashian] is one of the hardest-working women I've been around ever.

Robbie Kaine

A lot of things can happen. Kim and Brent could really spark together and move the judges.

Kim Young-ha

A military career offers the stability many South Korean women crave.

Chuck Feeney

I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.

Min-sik Choi

Western ghosts are evil, but Korean ghosts are about making peace. That is part of our Korean psyche.

Hans Vestberg

Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.

Kim Il-sung

I am sure you have seen for yourselves and sensed how the Korean people feel towards the United States here in our country.

Donald Sterling

I like Korean employees and I like Korean tenants,

Anthony Bourdain

I'm really happy to see the explosion of interest in Korean food, and this hybrid Korean-American [food].

George Murphy

Doing another three-box (sedan, like Neon) or trying to out-Korean the Koreans just didn't make sense.

Ralph Cossa

The North Koreans always like to do something to upstage the South.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

Yoko Ono

My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.

James Mullen

The pay was fine, but I was not able to work out a relocation and compensation package that met our needs at the time.

Margaret DiNinno

We could have met several times in December; unfortunately, PTEA rejected all of those dates.

Mike Murphy

We played OK -- I thought we were a little sluggish and methodical on offense in the first half. I thought we got out-hustled in the first half.

Rodney Stark

A whole lot of Americans have never met a Mormon.

Todd Pletcher

We'll point for the Met Mile. That's been the plan.

Megan Fox

Angelina Jolie was always a Method actress. She'd been nominated for Golden Globes before she ever did 'Tomb Raider.'

Gang Four

Metal is what it is, when it is what it always was.

Rocco Buttiglione

metal detectors, X-rays, the usual sort of things.

Elliott Abrams

The Assad regime is quite reliant on oil exports.

bell hooks

Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits.

Brian Billick

The observation of this team being soft is conjecture. I know our training regimen has been sound.

Donald Rumsfeld

The remnants of the regime are going to school on us,

David Bloom

What everyone is worried about is the whole regime will disappear.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have.

Tony Blair

I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.

River Phoenix

I can’t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.

Eric Blake

We're not ruling out anything at this point. It's just something to watch.

Zingisa Mkabile

He is an embarrassment to the ruling party.

Ari Fleischer

Obviously, he's not ruling it out... he's saying whatever it took.

Ralph Miller

At this point, we're not ruling anything out,

David Cross

[If Donald Trump does get elected, I will be] probably Secretary Of Reeducation. Or I don't know. I'll probably end up working in the cafeteria.

David Brooks

It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.

Bill Richardson

My view is that the secretary should step aside.

Suranne Jones

She worked in one as a secretary when she was 21 or 22,

Philip Reeker

The secretary reiterated what we have said before. We are not seeking to escalate this problem, but we are not going to give in to blackmail.

J. Stoltzfus

This is the secretary of transportation bill, that's what this is.

Michael Bloomberg

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

Hillary Clinton

My work as secretary of state was not influenced by the outside forces.

Hillary Clinton

I'm the most transparent secretary of state because of that. I've been willing to say, "OK, read them [emails] all."

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Ron Greene

That way we can teach her what's right, not what's mandated by the state of California.

Mark Bowman

We have wrestled better, but everyone is very tough in the state tournament.

Rodney Stark

Wherever you've got a state church, you have empty churches.

Drew DiPippo

We're still trying to get better and we want to make the state tournament.

Tommy Bowden

You like to see the state be a success.

Andrew Fastow

I think many of the statements in there are false.

Daniel Breaker

Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.

Tom Murphy

I think this is a wonderful statement of values, really,

Bill Shaw

We threatened them for a while. But they would come back, sometimes on their own account, sometimes on our account.

Gao Zhisheng

I've been threatened before. But this time they wanted to kill me.

Rob Bell

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.