Han Suyin Quotes
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.Han Suyin
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
Sam Heughan -
I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson -
Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
Harold Prince -
No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
Kapil Sibal -
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler -
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
Barack Obama
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
Baltasar Gracian -
When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
Gary Cole -
'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
Nathan Fillion -
When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
Imre Kertesz -
I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
Wavy Gravy -
Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
Ignatius of Antioch
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
Samantha Morton -
Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
G. Stanley Hall -
I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
Larry David -
If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
Orison Swett Marden -
It just feels unnatural to me to broadcast anything other than the character I've created.
Kate McKinnon -
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.
Alan Cooper -
I don't need to do only one thing, you know? Even in the entertainment industry, nobody's 'just a singer.'
Jessica Jung -
Media is leaving Bollywood behind in screaming. In Bollywood, one person screams in media in media everyone is doing that.
Salman Khan -
Efforts to promote financial stability through adjustments in interest rates would increase the volatility of inflation and employment. As a result, I believe a macro-prudential approach to supervision and regulation needs to play the primary role.
Janet Yellen -
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.
Han Suyin