Ma Jun Quotes
When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.
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May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
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Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.
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I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely.
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I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to literature - terrifies me. But you could do worse than Mary Norton's 'The Borrowers.' I loved it as a kid, and my kids love it, too.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
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Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men. And they had some children who were just like all children. And it rained all day. The woman had to skewer the hole in the kitchen sink, when it was blocked up. The man went to the pub every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The other nights he mended his broken bicycle, did the pool coupons, and longed for money and power. The woman read love stories and longed for things to be different. The children fought and yelled and played and had scabs on their knees. In the end they all died.
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When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.
