Joanne Liu Quotes
Somehow we got used to death, and then we dehumanised it. We account for conflicts in figures. Ebola is 13,500 infected, 5,000 people have died... People are losing their sense of empathy, their sense of wanting to do something.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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My brother is really, really slow.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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I think Thanksgiving is the perfect occasion to break open a buttery, oaky Chardonnay from California.
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Representation is a sort of surveillance.
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Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples - is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, abandoning stereotypes, or feeling empathy as a result of a performance, a film, a book?
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Being a journalist, you write what you see. If we can't do that, what use are we? I turned years of training on myself.
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Sometimes I have experienced at the start of a film you're very excited and enthusiastic and you've done all your preparation internally and externally and you start the film and it's all go... Then your attention goes somewhere else. Your energy goes into telling the story, so you don't have the same amount of energy to be objective, and that's okay because sometimes you become a subject of the story and you're inside it so much that you don't need to keep on looking on the outside.
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Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
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Somehow we got used to death, and then we dehumanised it. We account for conflicts in figures. Ebola is 13,500 infected, 5,000 people have died... People are losing their sense of empathy, their sense of wanting to do something.
