Ha Jin Quotes
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
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You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.
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Right after college, a buddy of mine was moving to Boulder for some summer program, and he was like, 'Come live with me.' And I figured, why not? I love Colorado.
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August [Wilson] elevates in us is the average man in a way that is heroic and real and human. What you do is you sit with our pathology, you invest in our humanity. We're not walking around like walking symbols like we mean something larger. We're just moving throughout our lives and that's the power of the piece. That's revolutionary.
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When grace begins to rule, then our preoccupation with ourselves begins to leave.
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They have similar genes in the worm and the only reason we really know about what those genes do in people is because they've been studied in worms.
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The more you move, the stronger you'll grow.
