John Eccles Quotes
I can explain my body and my brain, but there's something more. I can't explain my own existence - what makes me a unique human being.
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
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Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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'Your Erroneous Zones' was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.
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I paint, and painting gives me my much needed break from my routine. Painting was a subject in my school, and I developed a liking for the lines and colours and started practising in my free time. It helps me de-stress amidst my hectic shooting schedules.
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Our father in heaven governs the affairs of men by placing specific individuals upon the earth to lead at specific times and inspiring and directing them.
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I get migraines a lot. I get them when I'm stressed out. My brain freezes, and I just try to get through that.
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I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I've veered way towards the left. I've been doing it for years. Maybe I do art to balance it out.
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Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.
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I don't have the fear of my looks changing.
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I can explain my body and my brain, but there's something more. I can't explain my own existence - what makes me a unique human being.
