Ella Maillart Quotes
The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.
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There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
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We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
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I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll.
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Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.
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The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art.
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Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once.
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In his farewell address, George Washington warned the people about political parties. Now we see how both Democrats and Republicans have conspired to reduce democratic participation. If this is the best the Democrats and Republicans have to offer, it's time to look elsewhere.Politics should be the prism for our most noble intentions.
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The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.
