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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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 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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My mum - and my granny and I - would close the curtains, turn on the TV and snuggle up and watch 'Come Dancing.' It was actually my granny who was the biggest fan; she loved the show, and she passed on her passion for it to me. I loved the dancing but also the frocks and the glamour.
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It's been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory.
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Every family struggles with different things, and everybody struggles with different things.
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When it's wet, you're much more tense on the steering wheel, you have to dance with the throttle and the brakes more. Each lap is a different scenario, so you're really on the edge of your nerves. One mistake could cost you the entire race.
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As I progressed in the firm, I learnt the craft, and as I learnt my craft, my partners and the firm threw up different opportunities.
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I want to do a darker, pop soul kind of feel.
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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.
