Wang Jianlin Quotes
Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultural industries our long-term focus.
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.
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Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, 'Oh, my nephew is starting a ready-to-wear brand', and 20 people will turn around and say, 'Is he? Can we invest?' in the same way that, now, if you were to say, 'My nephew is starting a mobile app,' everyone would say, 'Oh, smashing! Can I invest?'
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Not all cartoon humor is just about having bugged-out eyes and tongues flying out of people's heads.
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If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
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Aliens are definitely real.
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I'm really proud of 'Coming Home.' I wrote that about Eric, and I just feel like it's very relatable for anyone who has to be away from their loved ones, you know, for long periods of time - our military, people who are working. It's pretty special.
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I don't think confidence has ever really been one of those things that came naturally for me. If people thought I was confident, it was really just the way I masked my insecurity, because I didn't want people to really get to know the real me.
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Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultural industries our long-term focus.
