Ma Jun Quotes
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
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Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?
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The image of the unions is still not in tune with where we actually are, which is fifty-fifty men and women, with an increasing number of women at the top. I think it is changing, but I'm not complacent about this.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.
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Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.
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I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.
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When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.
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I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.
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Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.
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From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by Pali, but even Pali died, too. Linguists say the only ancient language which was resuscitated from the grave was Hebrew of Israel.
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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
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Therefore, criticism has to direct itself against itself, and against the mysterious Substance in which it has up to now hid itself. In this way criticism must resolve things such that the development of this Substance drives itself forward to the Universality and Certainty of the Idea of its actual existence, the Eternal Self-consciousness.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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I think poverty is the biggest challenge for Los Angeles and for many of our cities that have come back from the recession.
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Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.
