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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The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.
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Too often, we rely on other people - whether it be politicians or institutions - to effect change.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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In boxing, they say it's the punch you don't see coming that knocks you out. In the wider world, the reality we ignore or deny is the one that weakens our most impassioned efforts toward improvement.
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Worst of all was the blizzard. People from the east or west coasts of America may think they have seen a blizzard. Likely they have not. It is almost exclusively a phenomenon of the plains, and got its name on the plains. It entailed wind-driven snow so dense and temperatures so cold that anyone lost in them on the shelterless plains was as good as dead.
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More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.
