Ma Jun Quotes
One thing most people would agree is that climate change would add further uncertainties to our already quite tight water supply situation in China.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.
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The world needs some help.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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Actors don't have real value.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.
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I don't want to sound like an aesthete, but one has to be true to the art. And that means being true to the tradition of the art but also being true to your own artistic vision.
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Obama broke his no-new-taxes pledge 15 days after he took office when he signed legislation on Feb. 4, 2009 raising the tax on cigarettes 158 percent - 62 cents per pack.
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You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.
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When I went to the all-Ireland final - Kerry against Dublin - I couldn't get away for an hour and a half with people coming up and wishing me all the best. Not one of them said, 'Martin, when did you leave the IRA?' But every one of them knew I was in the IRA at one stage.
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One thing most people would agree is that climate change would add further uncertainties to our already quite tight water supply situation in China.
