Xu Zhimo Quotes

Our sages are preoccupied ... with the not very easy task of equilibrating and harmonising the obvious impulses that men share with their fellow beings, such as food and sex.

Xu Zhimo

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• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

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• Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.

  

  Kate Mara
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• I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
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• But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
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• The last Pan Am Games in 2011 was one of the best experiences in my career. It was the first time women's boxing was in the Pan Am Games and any major games, and I had the opportunity to box in the first women's boxing fight and then went on to win gold.

  Mandy Bujold
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• Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

  

  Walter Bagehot
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• I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
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• Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Mind
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• When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.

  

  Washed Out
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• Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • People
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• I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place. Things are just way too good.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
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• There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.

  

  Nancy Reagan
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• I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Important
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• I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impact and some lasting value? Is it worth it for me to spend two years of my middle-aged life on this?' They're my criteria, and I think that's led me to more urgent projects.

  

  Larry Charles
  • Life
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• Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • People
  • America
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• All my writing, I always do it in the studio, 'cause everything sounds good. The piano's there, the keyboards; if you want to put strings on something... And everything sounds good when it's in the cans; it sounds killer.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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• You have to follow and honor that inner voice. I always encouraged the girls to do the same.

  

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• Sometimes fashion designers will be like, 'This is what's hot right now, and you will be cool if you wear this,' but sometimes it's too expensive or doesn't look good on me or isn't who I am, and I don't need to just think that what you're saying is what's cool if I have my own identity.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Cool

• A lot of the stuff that's happening now, I can trace back to 'Death of a Salesman.' Francine Maisler, the casting director, saw 'Death of a Salesman' and called me in for 'Unbroken.' The casting director of 'Normal Heart' had seen 'Salesman' too. I look back on it now, and it's like one thing led to another; it was a chain reaction.

  

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• I can't change the way I am … but if I offended you, good. Cause I still don't give a fuck.

  

  Eminem
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• Halfway isn't all the way, but it's better than no way.

  

  John Updike

• The Ice Nation is a pretty brutal place. They breed war heroes. The relationship between mother and child, in that world, is a little bit different than it is in our own society. But, no one really likes being a disappointment to their parents and their family.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • World
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• Science and art are not opposed.

  

  Samuel Morse
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• Our sages are preoccupied ... with the not very easy task of equilibrating and harmonising the obvious impulses that men share with their fellow beings, such as food and sex.

  

  Xu Zhimo
  • Sex
  • Impulses
  • Preoccupied