Yao Ming Quotes
Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
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Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
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Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
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I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.
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I'm always so sick of myself after a show.
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Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.
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We learn from our mistakes, we do some reflection, we lick our wounds, we brush ourselves off - then we go forward, with the presumption of good faith in our fellow citizens.
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When I am grown up I shall carry a notebookâa fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
