Xun Kuang Quotes
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.Xun Kuang
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In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.
Ferdinand de Saussure -
Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.
V. S. Naipaul -
It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
Sally Yates -
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
Pablo Picasso -
I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
Rachel Kushner -
The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
Octavia Spencer
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
Victor Garber -
I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
Frances Bean Cobain -
Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.
Patrick Warburton -
We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
Baz Luhrmann -
I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
Rachel Boston
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The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
Vik Muniz -
I am from Karnal, India.
Kalpana Chawla -
Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
Feist -
When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
Dalai Lama -
My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.
Vanessa Lengies -
To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
Walther Bothe
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An actor gives voice to the many multitudes that we all contain. That's why we love the movies, why we love TV shows: we watch different people portray an aspect of ourselves, maybe even one we don't like.
Kristen Stewart -
You see, there weren't these magazines like 'Heat' in my day. Always waiting to trip up these pretty girls and make them seem something horrible, something to make them look stupid and small and ugly and disgusting.
Joanna Lumley -
I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.
Dwayne Johnson -
I was voted by my high school senior class as most likely to recede.
Frank Welker -
Have Ithaka always in your mind. Your arrival there is what you are destined for. But don't in the least hurry the journey.
C.P. Cavafy -
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
Xun Kuang