Ma Ying-jeou Quotes
Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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I'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so appreciate that. We all ate dinner together every single night, and my mom stayed at home with us. I owe a lot to my parents.
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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.
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I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.
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If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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I'm pagan.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like, 'No, none of that!'
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Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.
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The stories that you tell yourself can make or break you - no matter who you are.
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Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.
