Du Mu Quotes
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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I usually say I left puberty at 58.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.
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One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad's farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. My father was full of terrifying anger.
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Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.
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I did a business in a box called College Pro Painters. They taught you how to paint houses, how to hire and fire, how to sell, how to deal with customers. You got a one-year franchise. It was the hardest year of my life in terms of hard work. I won manager of the year. It was very successful.
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If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.
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In general, fire is used to throw enemies into confusion so that you can attack them.
