Hu Shih Quotes
India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
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My biggest asset is not cash - it's a large, growing, devout fanbase.
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I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say 'no.' The power of slow is the power of no. I can't go to every party I get invited to. I can't do every work thing.
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And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
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I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.
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The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.
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I'm glad to say I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.
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Our blight is ideologies - they are the long-expected Antichrist!
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The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, 'My country, right or wrong.' In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
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Why the hell do we make such a big deal out of things that shouldn't be a big deal?
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I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to brunch with either my friends or my girlfriend. I then like to just chill out: read the papers, read some scripts and then take it very easy. If it's sunny, I go for a walk with my dog, Niles, in the countryside.
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I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate.
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I always thought I was going to be a professional horse rider because I rode horses competitively from zero to 17 years old.
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You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.
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I love my career. I thought, if I was lucky, I would retire as a senior intelligence officer, still working on the issues of counterproliferation. But that didn't happen, so - new chapter.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.
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India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
