Ma Jun Quotes
Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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The circus allows one to be logical and unreal at the same time. In the circus, all is possible: there can be a man with two heads or a character with a green face.
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I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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If people hate me they hate me.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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I worked on the workshop of 'Topdog/Underdog' before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I'm based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.
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Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.
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The three pillars of development (economic, social and environmental) must be strengthened together. But it is evident that two of the pillars - economic and social - are subsidiary to, and underpinned by, the third: a vibrant global ecology. Neither dollars nor our species will out-survive our planet. The earth can survive happily without people or profit
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Eventually the man comes to see that he has a mind, and that his mind is like a fist, wrapped tightly around a single thought. He cannot open the fist to look at the thought, for fear that it will fly away, but he knows that it is very important and that he must hang on to it, no matter what the cost.
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I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
