Jimmy Lai Quotes
I think gossip and scandal is something from Western culture that has pervaded the rest of the world.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.
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What I think is really great about this movie , that young people who weren't there will have a chance to have the visceral experience of what Jackie Robinson went through.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
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I think gossip and scandal is something from Western culture that has pervaded the rest of the world.
