Xu Zhimo Quotes
With all our virtues and qualities, we Chinese as a race have never realised and expressed ourselves completely, as the Greek and the Romans did, through the medium of art.Xu Zhimo
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
Daniel Cormier -
Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
Gary Wolf -
War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
Ted Turner -
A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
Sally Schneider -
Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
Olafur Eliasson -
In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
Nancy Pelosi
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
Rachel Dratch -
The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
Ian Lustick -
Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
Jack Nicklaus -
After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.
Mallory Ortberg -
I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
Rachel Sklar -
You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
Imelda Staunton
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For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
Callie Khouri -
I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
Barbara Olson -
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
Walter Lippmann -
No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
P. J. O'Rourke -
It's better to be honest about your opinions than to pretend you don't have them.
Brown Campbell -
Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.
Aaron Huey
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The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.
J. Edgar Hoover -
I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.
Steven Spielberg -
From what I've read, everyone has a claim on Merlin. Was he Scottish, Welsh, English or even French? All these countries have got a big claim on him and Camelot. That's why the Arthurian legends are so popular - because they are such good stories.
Colin Morgan -
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
Orson Welles -
... protection of life is NOT a legitimate use for a firearm in this country sir! Not! That is expressly ruled out!
Allan Rock -
With all our virtues and qualities, we Chinese as a race have never realised and expressed ourselves completely, as the Greek and the Romans did, through the medium of art.
Xu Zhimo