Jimmy Lai Quotes
I wouldn't have launched 'Sharp Daily' without smartphones. Frankly, there's no reason for me to start another newspaper - it's a dying industry. But the smartphone is changing everything.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
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I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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Maybe guys also have insecurities, but in a sporting arena, they keep it to themselves. I can't do that.
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The catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons require that it be treated as a top priority. Disarmament will work better than any alternative in reducing the risk of use.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.
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Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.
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I have candy around my bed. I just kinda like reach over and eat it and then go back to sleep, no problem.
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The sin of Kibr (arrogance) is actually worse than many of the sins that we would be advising [other] people about.
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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
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Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play.
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I wouldn't have launched 'Sharp Daily' without smartphones. Frankly, there's no reason for me to start another newspaper - it's a dying industry. But the smartphone is changing everything.
