Xu Zhimo Quotes
My personal experience has only discovered two classes of people in China; Cynics who despise love and cowards who are afraid of it.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I love recording music.
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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
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So if people will pay attention to what I say because of our success as a group, I am going to use that.
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I think most people who decide to become a musician have to be prepared for some degree of struggle. It makes the art better if you go through some struggles. To be an artist, in any form, you have to develop some sense of compassion and empathy - it's an important quality for everyone to have, on a human level. But I think, as part of our job, you have to be able to do that, so suffering, tends - if you allow it - to let you look on the bright side. It will help with those senses.
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Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.
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You influence your surroundings every bit as much as they influence you.
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My personal experience has only discovered two classes of people in China; Cynics who despise love and cowards who are afraid of it.
