Ha Jin Quotes
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.
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I grew up listening to a lot of different types of music, and R&B in particular was something that I loved - Aaliyah, Usher, Alicia Keys, TLC.
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The best leaders over the long term are those who have a sound home life.
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I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.
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What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.
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The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf - is of St. Andrew himself bearing the slatier cross on which, once he was captured at Patras, he was to be stretched before he was crucified.Only the Scots would have thought of celebrating a national game with the figure of a tortured saint.
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Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power of language and how it can peel back truths, bring things to the surface. So I learned a lot from fiction.
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I come from a stupid family. My uncle heard that most deaths occurs within ten miles of the house...so he moved.
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I don't think of myself as a dissident, and I'm more of an immigrant than an exile.
