Ma Jian Quotes
When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.
Ma Jian
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Edmund Burke
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I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.
Lance Henriksen
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Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.
Radhanath Swami
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
Gallant
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
Jack Keane
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
Taylor Lautner
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
Pat Toomey
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
Ralph Ellison
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
Vik Muniz
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Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.
Ian Rush
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Lipgloss is my calling!
Vanessa Hudgens
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The Bible tells us that we're supposed to leave an inheritance for children.
Marvin Sapp
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When I left HP, I thought about sitting it out for a while.
Mark V. Hurd
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You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.
Oscar Robertson
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In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly,But westward, look, the land is bright.
Arthur Hugh Clough
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Children - change that to infants - dream of their past lives, remembering; for example, how to walk and talk. They are born with the knowledge of how to think, with the propensity for language. They are guided by memories that they later forget.
Jane Roberts
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When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.
Ma Jian
