Ma Jian Quotes
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God bless nannies.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
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Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.
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I was always taken in and out of school.
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The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
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The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people, that's it.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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I want to age nicely. Rather than being afraid of aging, I want to take each year coolly and age gracefully.
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Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
