Ma Jun Quotes
China leads the world in energy consumption, carbon emissions, and the release of major air and water pollutants, and the environmental impact is felt both regionally and globally.
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That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86.
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It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.
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I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.
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When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
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For the first time, entrepreneurs can monetize their own open-source and peer-to-peer network. They can crowdfund and raise money from people across the world on the Internet in crypto-currency.
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There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.
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It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.
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As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
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Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.
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I want my little corner of the world where I get to make games where you're not trying to win or lose; you're not trying to get a higher score - you are having unbelievable amounts of fun as you learn about yourself and the world. That's what games can do!
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When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
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I just put my feet in the air and move them around.
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Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.
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Yes, it has made me happier. Finishing them has made me happier. Before I wrote the Potter books, I'd never finished a novel. I came close to finishing two.
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I'm not really gonna stop. We've got so much stuff to do, so many songs we talked about, so many things to record.
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Without sequencing we can’t identify cause and effect, grasp the long-term effects of our actions, or create coherent plans for the future.
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China leads the world in energy consumption, carbon emissions, and the release of major air and water pollutants, and the environmental impact is felt both regionally and globally.
