Hu Shih Quotes
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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I used to be a professional kiteboarder. People were like, 'Oh, my God, are you scared of sharks? Are you scared of injuries?' You can't be scared. If you're scared, then you can't do it. You can't train to be the best.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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Pilates is great.
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I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
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I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.
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I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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The commentators of 1963 speak, in discussing Africa, of the Monrovia States, the Brazzaville Group, the Casablanca Powers, of these and many more. Let us put an end to these terms. What we require is a single African organisation through which Africa's single voice may be heard, within which Africa's problems may be studied and resolved.
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
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I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that.
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Sometimes I wake up and think I look horrible. And sometimes I see a strong woman.
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This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime.-2008
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If you wanna make money in music, you're better off being on the business end of it a lot of the time. And also as a musician, if you do make money, it means you had to bite and scratch and kick the whole way to not get ripped off, because at every corner, there's somebody there waiting to trip you up and take a bigger chunk.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.
