Chiang Kai-shek Quotes
The modern world is one wherein every nation has to develop the strength of which its citizens are capable. The independent status of the individual, his thoughts and actions become a thing of the past.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.
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People have to know there is more to living than physical things.
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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The essence of the desert is that you are free to create your own world, your own visionary reality. … Both Burning Man and the Internet make it possible to regather the tribe of mankind.
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I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.
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The modern world is one wherein every nation has to develop the strength of which its citizens are capable. The independent status of the individual, his thoughts and actions become a thing of the past.
