Peng Liyuan Quotes
As a singer, I have won the highest honours in China. Actually I am like the panda: we are both national treasures.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard to read about again.
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The truth is, I'm not body confident.
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Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.
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To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.
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I'm thankful to say that I already have my dream job. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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The interesting thing for me is, if I met Michael Peterson in person, I'd want him to let himself off the hook just a little bit.
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I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective spiritual force - like The Force in 'Star Wars' - where it doesn't matter where you were raised, or what your background is, there are certain elements of story that totally appeal to you.
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There isn't much of a music scene in Hermann, unless you like polka. But the landscape I grew up in is a part of me. I spent a lot of time in the woods doing a lot of nothing to break the boredom.
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For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
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Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
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I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.
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I have friends who are science journalists, and I'm seeing stories of theirs or talking with them about ideas that they're pitching. Certain kinds of science are around me all the time, like climate change and biology.
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The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
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Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
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Who so shall telle a tale after a man, He moste reherse, as neighe as ever he can, Everich word, if it be in his charge, All speke he never so rudely and so large; Or elles he moste tellen his tale untrewe, Or feinen thinges, or finden wordes newe.
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I am certain that if I have any merit, it is knowing how to make good use of my eyes, to guide the camera in its task of capturing not only colors, lights and shadows, but the movement of life itself.
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Cannibalization is by far the most difficult feat any established, successful company can pull off.
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A tip for generalists who try to read economic research papers: If you get to a section that's incomprehensible, don't give up. Just skip to the next section.
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As a singer, I have won the highest honours in China. Actually I am like the panda: we are both national treasures.
