Yang Liwei Quotes
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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I have a good relationship with Lifetime.
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All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.
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We must resist the pressures of others to soundbite our complicated, nuanced experiences.
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I started singing weddings and bar mitzvahs at 15, lying about my age. It was a great discipline.
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Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
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I love to have massages, I think it's really important to relax. In New York, I usually go to Massage Williamsburg or Great Jones Spa.
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The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable regions, which cupidity or the love of money alone would induce man to venture into. Where can I now go and find nature undisturbed?
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The scenery was very beautiful. But I did not see The Great Wall of China.
