Ma Jian Quotes
The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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When people saw that the film was called 'White People,' many got very defensive. I've been getting some very interesting emails - and I'm used to hate mail, believe me. I think this idea that we grouped white people together is offensive to people.
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The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well , you meet people like this. Run away from them. They're not good people.
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Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that's seen by a lot of people.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
