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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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 -
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 -
People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
Gallant -
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 -
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 -
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 -
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
Vik Muniz -
Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.
Ian Rush -
Lipgloss is my calling!
Vanessa Hudgens -
'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
Lapo Elkann
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
Dan Gable -
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg -
I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.
Fiona Apple -
For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
Vidal Sassoon -
The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
Mal Peet -
Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
Olivia Munn
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
Karl Popper -
All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.
Muhammad Ali -
How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the quiet center of himself but had forever cast himself from some dark past he could not remember to a future that did not exist. Not once had he been present for his life. So his life had passed like a dream. Is it possible for people to miss their lives the way one can miss a plane?
Walker Percy -
God only promises to bless the nation that recognizes His authority.
Tony Evans -
You are sufficiently like me to officially be interesting.
John Scalzi -
When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.
Ma Jian