Chen Guangcheng Quotes
How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.
Chen Guangcheng
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
Pamela Nicholson
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
Rajiv Ouseph
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
Barbara Bush
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
Karin Slaughter
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
Sam Hunt
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
Patrick Wilson
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
Kara DioGuardi
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
Zach LaVine
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
Mads Mikkelsen
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
Carine Roitfeld
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He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.
Becki Newton
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
J. A. Konrath
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I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.
Warren Spector
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I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.
Fay Wray
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People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
Carly Fiorina
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In any country, in any city, there will be political influence on what is said, what kind of images are to be projected and, yes, of course artists can be and are influenced by politicians.
Cai Guo-Qiang
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I'm much better known in France and Germany and Spain than I am in the U.S. When I go to Russia, I get mobbed; I have groups of fans waiting for me out in the hotel lobby, waiting for me to come down off the elevator. In China, I almost got beat up because people were trying to get me to do a drawing for them.
Bill Plympton
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If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.
Frank Gehry
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Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
Alex Trebek
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It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.
W. H. Auden
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The reality is that the institutional framework in which Wall Street operates is fundamentally inappropriate, and it inevitably generates violent fluctuations of the market.
Maurice Allais
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How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.
Chen Guangcheng
