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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The American public believes the Founding Fathers were close to infallible and that, while our political system has its faults, it functions far better than other democracies. But is it true?
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When I was playing bluegrass, I was living down in West Hollywood - starving.
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You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.
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I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.
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“There are men who love to gaze with the mind at things that can never be seen, feel at least the throb of a beauty that will never be known and hear over immense, bleak reaches the echo of that which is no celestial music but only their heart's vain cries. ”
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.