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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My writing ability all stems from the blues.
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I try to teach my kids to be open.
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Oh, I did stop smoking a long time ago.
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I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpoint or at least nail down feelings I'm having and that I've had for the last however long. I need to nail them down long enough to actually write about and elaborate on them.
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Because I believe that I know about that aspect of hip-hop better than any one else, I'm trying my best in order to be the most real I can in this situation.
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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.
