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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No matter how long my day has been, I never forget to remove my make-up and slap on some intensive moisturiser before I go to bed.
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I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.
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I really love being in a room and developing work.: being at the table, looking at the script for the first time, and putting a story on its feet.
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These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.
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When I was younger, when I was a teenager, the work was more satirical and funny and cartoony. And part of it was chops - if you have a more limited repertoire of stick figures and cartoon characters, they lend themselves more to humor than to tragedy.
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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.
