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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I'm not a director to make an action or horror film. That's not for me.
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I'd like to provide an SAT word in everything I do.
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I try to read as much as I can - all the time, really. And I absolutely love going to the cinema, especially during the day.
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There's the phrase of 'making America great again,' but how did we make America great? Who did it? It was Thurgood Marshall who did it. It was Thurgood Marshall who made America live up to its constitution, to its dream. He pushed the envelope to make sure that we were equal.
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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.
