Jenova Chen Quotes
I think that our language, culture, age, fortune, property, and our fame is all a facade. In the end, we're all the same.
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
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I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.
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I am brazen. For me, creating means regurgitating, distorting, and assembling everything that has passed through me and continues to do so.
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Maybe the songs that we sing are wrong, Maybe the dreams that we dream are gone, So bring it on home and it won't be long, It's getting better man!
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Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?
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Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.
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Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one allows himself to be animated by new images, he discovers iridescence in the images of old books. Poetic ages unite in a living memory. The new age awakens the old. The old age comes to live again in the new. Poetry is never as unified as when it diversifies.
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I think that our language, culture, age, fortune, property, and our fame is all a facade. In the end, we're all the same.
