Hu Shih Quotes
Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life... . The "why" of life makes it meaningful... . Only when an answer is given is one living life as a man.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.
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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.
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There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.
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I don't like a lot of frills and fusses.
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I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.
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I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!
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I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.
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My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
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History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy.
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The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.
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This country … abounds in that Cuba is a heaven in the spiritual sense of the word, and we prefer to die in heaven than serve in hell.
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I think young people don't really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in this country. It's not taught enough in school.
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Waitin' on the pizzle, the dizzle and the shizzle G's to the bizzack, now ladies here we gizzo.
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I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
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The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success.
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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.
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Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life... . The "why" of life makes it meaningful... . Only when an answer is given is one living life as a man.
