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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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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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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For me, the things like the Confederate flag - I just don't think that it does anybody much good, and it certainly causes a lot of people a lot of pain.
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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
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In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community.
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There's no better feeling than being on a Broadway stage for me.
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Say thank you. Say it often, and say it with meaning.
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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.
