Wen Jiabao Quotes
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Nothing moves except my eyes and my hand occasionally turning a page, and yet something not exactly defined by the word 'text' unfurls, progresses, grows and takes root as I read. But how does this process take place?
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There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.
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To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
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In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world.
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Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
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More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.
