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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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With the World War II era, there's so much written material to draw on. When you go back to the 14th century, you have to imagine more.
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Some people believe God is involved in every little decision we make. Some people believe you're given the free will to make the decisions. Sometimes people believe God is not involved at all.
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I love acting because you don't have to do the same thing over and over again, every day, and that's what attracted me to wanting to do this for a living. So to be given an opportunity to create something completely different and live that out is the dream. It's incredibly rewarding.
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What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
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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.
