Ma Jun Quotes
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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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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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When we were making 'Arrested Development,' it was the hardest thing I'd ever done. You know, nobody was watching. We weren't getting feedback. The job wasn't paying very well. But the one thing I did feel confident about was: No one will ever be able to do this again. Because no one would be stupid enough to try.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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Have a relentless commitment to consistency of message. It might be the 15th time you’ve given the speech, but some people may never have heard it. Or, some people may have heard it four times but it’s the first time they’ve internalized it.
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Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.
