Chen Shui-bian Quotes
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I love my work, and I feel fortunate to be doing a job I love, but it isn't the centre of my life.
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Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
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My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
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Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.
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It's really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
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When we're obsessed with someone, it's never about them. It's about us hating ourselves. And that's generally the tone of a lot of my videos, which is this desperate character who's overcompensating with being super happy. But she's broken.
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The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.
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What's so wrong with feeling sorry for myself? Better that than trying to get other people to feel sorry for me.
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I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.
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One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable. (11 September 1941)
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Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.
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Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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Getting an agent is hard, and I also think people rush to get an agent too soon.
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Kris [Jenner] and the family, they have the power of communication. This is the number one communications company.
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I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
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It's hard to be natural in a scene when you pick up the phone and no one is there.
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To improve the economy is not just a slogan, it requires tangible actions!
