Chen Long Quotes
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
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I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.
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I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations: in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of the brain (equivalent to the law of gravitation for the planetary & sideral world).
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I was raised on NBC television.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We have swept the dirt and dust from our society under the carpet - but this carpet is on other side of the planet.
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I remember the first time I met my wife, Elisa. As a favor to a friend, I had gone to her home to pick up her sister, Frances. Elisa opened the door, and at least for me, it was love at first sight.
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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
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My idea of relaxation is not lying down by a beach. I have to move around, do stuff. Though I'm a massive quiz show person.
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I am just focusing on one match at a time.
