Wen Jiabao Quotes
There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
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We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
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Like, I get along with everybody. I respect everybody, but at the same time, I carry myself with an aura that demands respect, too.
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I think every artist wants to have that 'Grammy award winner' tag in front of their name.
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Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it to be. It meant you could come back from picking cotton in a field to find that your children are gone, your husband's gone, your mother's gone.
Colson Whitehead -
I'm in a class by myself, along with people like Rod Stewart.
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There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.
