Chiang Kai-shek Quotes
My father died when I was 9 years old. The miserable condition of my family at that time is beyond description. My family, solitary and without influence, became at once the target of much insult and abuse.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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I have known I was destined to live in Goa the moment I first stepped foot on the Panjim docks from the ferry from Mumbai, when I was 18.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.
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It's all because of my parents that I am gifted with such good looks and people get attracted to me. I have built an image in the industry, and because of that, I have so many female fans. I want to build my male fan following, too.
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There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
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College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do.
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Whenever we come back from another project, we're always so stoked to see each other and play with each other again. I really feel like that's been the key to why we're still together as a band. I remember a period five or six years ago feeling a little burnt out and wasn't sure whether I wanted to keep doing it.
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There's too much - I don't know what the word is - scientology in the game.
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You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
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We can freely acknowledge the tremendous struggle ahead of us, and yet choose to remain decidedly optimistic, and to work from a fundamental belief in the possibilities of the future. … Every time we explain how a better future might be built, we redraw the boundaries of the possible.
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My father died when I was 9 years old. The miserable condition of my family at that time is beyond description. My family, solitary and without influence, became at once the target of much insult and abuse.
