Ma Huateng Quotes
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
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I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.
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I have made that one of my policies never to play anything that I've already put on record.
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One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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I remember, when I was younger, it was such a big fantasy for me. Now that I actually have a career and have made an album, it's really surreal.
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Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.
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I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
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When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
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The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.
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I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.
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We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.
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We must tell girls their voices are important.
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I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.
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We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.
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One is told that you're either a hot writer, or you're finished and you're over. But of course, the more you hang around and the more you become aware not only of what "reputation" is for other writers, but also what your own reputation is, you become aware that it's much more complicated than the conventional media would have you believe.
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Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.
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I simply value Arthur Capel friendship. And even so, he knows very little about me.
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When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
