Chen Guangcheng Quotes
The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?Chen Guangcheng
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
Ian Doescher -
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
Salvatore Quasimodo -
A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
D. B. Weiss -
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Saint Augustine -
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 -
Reddit strives to be a community-oriented link-sharing and news site, which means that all our content is submitted and voted on by members of our community. We don't interfere with that process at all, either in an editorial or curation capacity.
Yishan Wong
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It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.
Jacki Weaver -
The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
Aaron Carter -
As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites.
Camille Paglia -
If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.
Larisa Oleynik -
Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
B. B. King
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Our family business was operating batting cages. The pitching machine spit out the balls at lightning speed. Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax. Whitey Ford. 50 cents for 12 pitches. Of course, my mother ran the place, and I was her slave: selling candy, hosing down the street, and the most dreaded of all jobs, feeding the pitching machine with balls.
Taylor Negron -
It's better to be honest about your opinions than to pretend you don't have them.
Brown Campbell -
I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
Ted Rall -
I go to my kids' sports games and don't have to carry the enormous burden of secrecy with me every day. However, adrenaline still courses through my body whenever I go through passport control to another country.
Valerie Plame -
I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.
Warren Bennis -
I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
Famke Janssen
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I think you need to have a tax system that basically is flat, fair and simple. And - that you can put on a post card. I mean, even Timothy Geithner could do this one and get it on time.
Rick Perry -
My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.
Dean Norris -
Failure to deport aliens who are convicted for criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk - especially immigrant communities in the very sanctuary jurisdictions that seek to protect the perpetrators.
Jeff Sessions -
I've discovered, I guess, that it's fun to work.
Doris Duke -
In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
James Dyson -
The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?
Chen Guangcheng