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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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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The bottom line is fans just want to hear a good song. Some people will look underneath to see who wrote it, but they just want to hear a good song. And if they don't hear it, they're not going to buy it just because you wrote it.
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Always have to think like a guy with no food in his refrigerator.
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My main weakness is nerves.
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A smile is the universal welcome.
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It's very interesting because as an actor, you play a litany of different roles, but to play both of them within the same day multiple times, in quick successions, it's different and sort of a really rare opportunity that I was initially terrified by and a little bit daunted by.
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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.