Bai Juyi Quotes

I remember, when I was young, How easily my mood changed from sad to gay. ... But now that age comes, A moment of joy is harder and harder to get.

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• Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.

  

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• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

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• When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.

  

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• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

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• I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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• Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

  

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• Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.

  

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• There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.

  

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• Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

  

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• The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Business
  • Day
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• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
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• My wife attends a Presbyterian church.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Wife
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• When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.

  

  Harry Caray
  • Hope
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• Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.

  

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• The core of my personality consists of many selves.

  

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  • Personality
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• Try not to eat after 7 P.M. Try to stay away from heavy food in the night, like hamburgers and chicken nuggets. Eat that stuff in the morning or early afternoon.

  

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  • Night
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• People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.

  

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• There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

  

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• You can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can't take the Midwest out of the boy.

  

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  • Boy

• Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.

  

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• The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Country
  • Age
  • Spirit

• I remember, when I was young, How easily my mood changed from sad to gay. ... But now that age comes, A moment of joy is harder and harder to get.

  

  Bai Juyi
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Joy