Ha Jin Quotes
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
Kate Winslet -
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
Abraham Lincoln -
Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
Natalia Makarova -
If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
Bart Gordon -
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
Wendell Berry -
The disappearance of Israel as a Zionist project, through war, cultural exhaustion or demographic momentum, is... plausible... Many Israelis see the demise of the country as not just possible, but probable.
Ian Lustick
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The most dazzling aspect of 'Possession' is Ms. Byatt's canny invention of letters, poems and diaries from the 19th century.
Jay Parini -
I actually get a lot of messages with people saying, 'What's a Marvin Gaye?' and, I mean... Oh, wow. I must be getting old, because someone who was born in 2004 just asked me what a Marvin Gaye was.
Charlie Puth -
I can believe in myself, and I feel like I'm such a strong and talented designer.
Ashley Nell Tipton -
God, I used to have really skinny-crap eyebrows. They were such an ugly disaster.
Lily James -
My grandmother was not a U.S. citizen. Growing up along the border, you see the real human side of immigration - not the picture often drawn by politicians far removed from the border.
Pete Gallego -
You're not going to make any progress on a problem if you're not honest about what a problem is.
David Drummond
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To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.
Anne Sweeney -
Women artists, no matter how well recognized they are, are seldom given solo exhibitions or featured in significant group shows. They are never top-ranked in auction choices.
Agnes Gund -
I purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don't read any press about myself.
Jesse Eisenberg -
If you can have Ed Sheeran on your record, you may as well.
Jamie Lawson -
A cultural thing that is funny to me is that every time I go out in D.C. after a show, all the nightclubs and restaurants are owned by Iranians and Afghans. It's funny to me how we lost our countries but we gained the nightlife.
Maz Jobrani -
I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.
Jonathan Frakes
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Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.
Larry Hovis -
If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.
Sam Palladio -
Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.
Zaha Hadid -
If you're ever in a dark place, don't resort to violence. Talk to someone; whether it be a therapist, teacher, parent, or just someone you can trust. We all have our dark places and it's important that you get help.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance -
We can't continue to be like this. Who am I? Your fiancée or your concubine?
Ha Jin