Kai Greene Quotes
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
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For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.
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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
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Genocide, the physical extinction of a people, is universally condemned, but ethnocide, the destruction of people's way of life, is not only not condemned, it's universally celebrated as part of a development strategy.
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It's better to be nominated for awards than not to be nominated for them, but of course to some degree such awards National Book Award are always subjective.
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What they call 'play' (gym, travel, sports) looks like work.
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It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up worm holes into entire new universes.
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It is a curious paradox that several of the greatest and most creative spirits in science, after achieving important discoveries by following their unfettered imaginations, were in their later years obsessed with reductionist philosophy and as a result became sterile. Hilbert was a prime example of this paradox. Einstein was another.
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I feel for food more than I could crave a woman. And that's the truth!
