Chen Guangcheng Quotes
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I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.
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I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'
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When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome.
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I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.
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People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.
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I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach.
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If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.
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The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're just honest - but they don't tell you what's right or wrong. They don't tell you what to agree with or what to believe in.
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Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
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Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
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I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I wanted to be an actress but I liked organizing everybody and putting on plays. I was a producer.
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The Hoosier way is quite simple - we work hard, and we live within our means.
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I don't think the show would be funny to you if you didn't already have a base of information.
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The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years!
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Getting to share the stories in my head with other people and have them enjoy those stories, and having them come to see my characters as real. That's so cool.
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Philanthropy can take the risks that others cannot or will not.
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We had collaborated with Allen Ginsberg on one of his last projects just before he died in the spring of '97, a book called Illuminated Poems - it was Allen's poems and songs and I illustrated them. Or, I illuminated them with paintings and drawings that bounced off of them. You want the picture to relate to the text without it slavishly regurgitating it or merely illustrating it, because that's redundant. You want to show another angle of what the text is saying.
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In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.
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Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
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In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean? You're saying I have to 'starve' and pay all these dues just to play jazz?' And my answer to them is, well, to some degree, yes! Because in order to play jazz you have to live it. Those notes mean something. They don't just come from your brain, they come from your heart and soul too. And in order to have that heart and soul you have to experience life. So I relate my music to my life and my life style. You can't separate the two.
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I am not in exile.
