Ma Jian Quotes
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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My personality is extremely unbalanced.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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No one remembers who came in second.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.
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Peace and quiet govern the world.
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A lot of American guys wear really wide legged jeans and square shoes. Then they come to Sweden and think my friends are gay because they're wearing 'really tight jeans'. It's called 'fitted!'
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The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.
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I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. There is not any part of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surfaces of the water.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
