Ma Ying-jeou Quotes
With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
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Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.
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What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
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The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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I love a cool bralette paired with a high-waisted jean, maybe with Chanel suspenders and a good platform shoe.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.
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You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
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There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.
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Health food makes me sick.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
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I don't know if I'm relentlessly cheerful... more consistently relaxed.
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The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.
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Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.
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Holocaust survivors came to Israel in order to establish a new human society where nobody would be able to hurt them just because they're Jewish. This is both a furious and vulnerable message.
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With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
