Michael Anti Quotes
There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities. If Facebook requires the use of real names, that could potentially put Chinese citizens in danger.
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I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.
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Being Human clothing was first launched in France, Belgium and Spain, where the brand's philosophy of look good, do good is connecting with people and not just Salman Khan.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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The truth is, I'm not body confident.
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Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
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I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.
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Network shows shoot so fast, so you kind of have to just go with your instinct.
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I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
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If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.
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The funny thing is, I really feel it if I don't run. I start getting sluggish, and I feel like I need to do it. That's how I know that the workouts are working - I miss them if I don't have them.
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I'm a happy person, and I want everybody else to be happy. Nothing wrong with that.
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Growing companies need commercial space, and their employees need to live nearby.
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We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.
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In Chinese, honesty is the figure of a man standing, physically standing, beside his work. That means honesty: a man stands by his work. Two things: figure / ground. (p. 314)
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Journalism is not easy. It's the first rough draft. I don't think you need to wait around until you have the definitive thing. You record what's there; don't delude yourself that this is the ultimate historical view.
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There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities. If Facebook requires the use of real names, that could potentially put Chinese citizens in danger.
