Qiu Jin Quotes
The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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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 am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.
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I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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One of the things I loved about working on 'Portal' was that we'd get emails from people saying, 'I love to play first-person shooters but my girlfriend won't play them with me. But I got her to play 'Portal' and she had a blast.'
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I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
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I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.
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Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.
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I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now.
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The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.
