Xu Zhimo Quotes
If the materialistic west is a civilisation without a heart, as we are accustomed to regard it nowadays, ours, on the other hand is one without a soul.Xu Zhimo
Quotes to Explore
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
Bebe Rexha -
Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
Candace Bushnell -
Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
Natalie Wood -
At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
Dan Hill -
It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
Barbara Amiel -
There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
Quico Canseco
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
D. B. Weiss -
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
Rachel Johnson -
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
E. O. Wilson -
You can't be a victim and heal.
A. J. Langer -
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
Haile Selassie -
I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.
Samantha Barks
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde -
A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.
Washed Out -
Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
Orhan Pamuk -
Human beings around the world have to be taught to go, 'Tamil equals Tamil civilians first, and the Tamil Tiger is a separate thing.' And both of those groups are different. It's like a square and a circle.
M.I.A. -
If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.
Adam Cohen -
I want to keep active, so when they called me to fight Nate Diaz, I agreed because I wanted to stay active. I got a little surprised because he was out so long, but he's a tough opponent.
Rafael dos Anjos
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Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the profit derived from the sale of drink, they are guilty of a form of moral assassination as criminal as any that has ever been practiced by the braves of any country or of any age.
John Ruskin -
Pop comes from the word 'popular,' which means that it could be anything that appeals to any group of people. When you talk about general masses, I think there's elements in every kind of music that can reach a broad audience.
Anwar Robinson -
Bare your struggles very close to your heart and have them be a part of you that you’re proud of instead of something that you’re ashamed of.
Lady Gaga -
'There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.'
Don DeLillo -
I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel -
If the materialistic west is a civilisation without a heart, as we are accustomed to regard it nowadays, ours, on the other hand is one without a soul.
Xu Zhimo