Max Baucus Quotes
We Americans have an obligation to come to China, to learn more about China. Why? Because with each passing day, it's going to be more and more in our future.
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
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One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
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Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.
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Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
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But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.
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If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.
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The reason why I moved from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I felt like I did a wrong turn.
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Why tell a story that people have seen 900 times? That's not interesting artistically.
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And kind as kings upon their coronation day.
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We Americans have an obligation to come to China, to learn more about China. Why? Because with each passing day, it's going to be more and more in our future.
