Martin Jacques Quotes
Unlike the Soviet Communist party, the Chinese Communist party chose to introduce capitalism.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don't get crazy, see what happens.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
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I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.
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When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
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Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.
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I believe that I'm one of the best in the world at what I do, and that's all I've ever wanted to be.
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My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody's paying me to act!
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But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home that's no excuse ... Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.
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I affirm, therefore, that our present position is one of apostasy; and to give the ballot to the negro will be no innovation, but a return to the old paths, a restoration of that spirit of liberty to which the sufferings and sacrifices of the Revolution gave birth.
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I like to go out if there's a party or go to the movies, but I just like hanging out with my buddies and having a good time.
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Unlike the Soviet Communist party, the Chinese Communist party chose to introduce capitalism.
