Du Fu Quotes
Within the vermilion gate, meats and wines go to wasteWhile on the roadside lie the frozen bodies of the poor.
Quotes to Explore
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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I love working with women.
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Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.
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I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?'
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I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.
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Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
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The course of development
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Part 1, Ch. 2
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When you stop selecting by ability you have to select according to some other inevitably less satisfactory criterion.
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I'd love to play Spiderman, but I'm definitely too old for that role now.
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It appears to be monumental only because it's art.
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I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.
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I love telling stories. I don't really think in terms of clear 'aims.'
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Immortality... Is that a super power?
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America does not always need to be the world's bodyguard.
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In America, we eat until we're full, which means we usually go past the point of satiety because satiety actually follows digestion.
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I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
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We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
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The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.
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Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.
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Within the vermilion gate, meats and wines go to wasteWhile on the roadside lie the frozen bodies of the poor.
