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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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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I've always been into working out and eating healthy. That's just who I am.
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There isn't a lot of work in Australia. I think that's why everyone comes over to America to find jobs and pilots and things, because there's not enough work to justify staying there, unfortunately. Like, I wish there was. I would love to stay home and be working with my family around the corner, but the work just isn't there.
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A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
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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.
