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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I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would see that I'm still brooding about statements, songs and issues from the third grade. The years between 1980 and today went by very, very quickly.
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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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On the one hand, rock is so predictable, but at the same time, the basic idea that an artist can cut through everything and make something that they believe in or make something that they love or speaks to them personally, that it can cut through the bullshit. But at the same time, the cliches of sincerity can kill that.
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Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God is of a different nature altogether. It does not hate tragedy. It never denies reality. It stands in the very teeth of suffering.
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The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.
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This is a bond nothing can ever loosen. What I have lost: what I possess forever.
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The more you move, the stronger you'll grow.
