Joan Chen Quotes
Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy.
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I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I think it affects the actors, and I think it affects the crew. There's that sensation like you're really shooting it for real, like in a documentary.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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The Palestinians must be brought to an understanding that Jerusalem will always remain under Israeli sovereignty and that there is no point for them in opening negotiations about Jerusalem.
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When I was in middle school, we had moved from Texas to Orange County. I didn't fit in, and it was pretty lonely.
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Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth. The tale of earth's unhonored things Sounds nobler there than 'neath the sun; And the mind whirls and the heart sings, And a shout greets the daring one.
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Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have.
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Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.
