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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It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement.
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In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-cooked food and occasional junk and, yes, were sometimes smacked.
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What I see as the particularly exciting prospect for writing horror fiction as we go forward is setting stories in more internal landscapes than external ones, mapping out the mind as the home for scary things instead of the house at the end of the lane or lakeside campground or abandoned amusement park.
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I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak.
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To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
