Wang Shi Quotes
I used to work for an SOE. The wealth I created didn't belong to me. In other words, I was only managing money for the country and the people.
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May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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I heard endless conversations between my parents when I was going to sleep about how we would survive, how we would continue. All of them were about trying to make me better.
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The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.
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Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and that's kind of a relief. I really like balancing the two.
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There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought.
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Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.
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I used to work for an SOE. The wealth I created didn't belong to me. In other words, I was only managing money for the country and the people.
