Chen Shui-bian Quotes
I just cannot declare the independency of Taiwan. Even if Lee Teng-hui was the president now, he could also not do it! (During Sanlih News Channel interview, 2005)
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.
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The Melvins are grunge.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
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I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.
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There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!
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I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.
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You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses.
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As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
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The kindness that's been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it's really saved my life.
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International sport is a lonely journey. You compete with one's self and try to grow as a cricketer.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel.
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'Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they're rapping. It's easier to try to censor some kid who's swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty.'
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Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.
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An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.
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Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy-of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.
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I think we need missile defense. But I want to make sure it works, that it's cost effective, that the technologies are operable, that it's our best possible strategy, and that hasn't been shown.
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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
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My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening fast bowler - to me he was a gorgeously heroic man. He helped form a union and closed down the Barnsley seam because it was seeping gas, and saved many, many lives.
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I've always been obsessed by beef jerky.
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I just cannot declare the independency of Taiwan. Even if Lee Teng-hui was the president now, he could also not do it! (During Sanlih News Channel interview, 2005)
