Deng Xiaoping Quotes
When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.
Quotes to Explore
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior. In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent. That's why they can cope with their environment very easily after birth - faster than us, anyway. But in humans, we continue to grow our brains. That's why we need care from our parents.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.
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When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.
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Let me be absolutely clear: Iran is a grave threat.
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Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.
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I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.
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When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.
