Bai Juyi Quotes
A strip of water's spread in the setting sun, Half the river's emerald, half is red. I love the third night of the ninth month, The dew is like a pearl; the moon like a bow.
Quotes to Explore
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Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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The first Indy was definitely the one I remember. It's my favorite race I've ever done. It's the most memorable race I've ever done, for sure. Even more than when I won. I just remember everything about it.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.
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Psychologically, the internet is very marxist. Everyone with a modem has access to the same information, so we all get jammed into a technological middle class.
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I've worked really hard, but it's definitely not been easy.
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With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision.
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People aren't born with kindness, it grows with them.
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A strip of water's spread in the setting sun, Half the river's emerald, half is red. I love the third night of the ninth month, The dew is like a pearl; the moon like a bow.
