Yang Wanli Quotes
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.
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When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a miracle.
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I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years.
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When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
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I have a lot of songs that I kind of put away, and I don't let anybody else hear them, and those are my songs.
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Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.
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Grave silence is far more powerful than the same old voices yapping away.
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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.
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Contrary to the fantasies of the fundamentalists, there was no deathbed conversion, no last minute refuge taken in a comforting vision of a heaven or an afterlife. For Carl, what mattered most was what was true, not merely what would make us feel better. Even at this moment when anyone would be forgiven for turning away from the reality of our situation, Carl was unflinching. As we looked deeply into each other's eyes, it was with a shared conviction that our wondrous life together was ending forever.
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Get rid of words and meaning, and there is still poetry.
