Qiu Xiaolong Quotes
If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.
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Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
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My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
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I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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Whenever I speak at a conference, I try to catch a few of the other presentations. I tend to stand in the back and listen, observe, and get a general sense of the room.
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Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
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The real boneheads are the libertarians.
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I've always been a really open person around my friends.
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Having watched 'X Factor' over the years, they just haven't got it right. The male winners haven't been believable. They look like puppets; they sound like puppets.
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If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.
