Xinran Quotes
Everybody says women are like water. I think it's because water is the source of life, and it adapts itself to its environment. Like women, water also gives of itself wherever it goes to nurture life.
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My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to be washed, but maybe blueberry facials aren't essential. It's quite fun, though. You want to give your children everything; I don't have children, so I want my dogs to have a good life.
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Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
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I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.
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The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.
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Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.
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Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.
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I like a quiet life.
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The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
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Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.
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Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.
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I've always been Mac, so I guess I always will be. I can't imagine I will change now.
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When I look back on what I've done, I think I'm drawn to obsession, perhaps.
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How we live our lives gives those we love permission to do the same. That is a power and a responsibility that we can never take lightly.
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Everybody says women are like water. I think it's because water is the source of life, and it adapts itself to its environment. Like women, water also gives of itself wherever it goes to nurture life.
