Hu Shih Quotes
What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.
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The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.
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I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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I'm not a violent person.
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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
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We won't be in any reggae publications or websites.
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And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
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I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical.
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I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.
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I love Evian face spray because it's a really easy way to just freshen up your face, especially if you're traveling on an airplane - I get really dry on airplanes.
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At least three times a week, I'm approached by someone who says something about 'Fargo.'
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I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
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All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia.
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'Did you ever sum up these prizes and think how very little the millionaire has beyond the peasant, and how very often his additions tend not to happiness but to misery!'
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You can't make money without selling something real. You can't make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can't have imagination without surrendering yourself to an idea that you want to create something of value to other human beings.
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And I watch 'Saturday Night Live' religiously, I have since I was a little boy. I watch it basically like one of my favorite sports teams.
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When I got out of school, I didn't really understand the differences in the different aspects of the business. For example, doing a play - where does that take you versus, you know, concentrating on independent films? You might have one thing in your head, but the things you're doing don't really lead down the right road, necessarily.
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I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar; I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric blues-the latest Muddy Waters. I'd spend hours and hours on the same track, back again, and back again.
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What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.
