Ba Jin Quotes

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

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• Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • War
  • History
  • Promise

• I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Think
  • Man

• I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Weapons
  • Nuclear Weapons

• I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Up
  • Past
  • Thought

• It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Career
  • Film
  • Easy

• Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Time
  • Important
  • Pretty

• For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Character
  • Season
  • Nervous

• All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Feel
  • Run
  • Quit

• I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Up
  • College
  • Mom

• I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Great
  • Write
  • Songs

• Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Energy
  • Model

• Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• 'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Heart
  • Right
  • Ego

• Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Experience
  • Learn
  • Forget

• My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Taken

• In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Long
  • Women
  • Apple

• If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • People
  • Want
  • You

• I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Black
  • Knowledge
  • Universe

• Unfortunately, we have a tendency to see figures from the past as caricatures - either all good or all bad - when the truth is always much more complex.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Bad

• When I'm writing, I can always play around with tense. I can always make past present. I can always kind of manipulate, and I can always be delusional in a way that's completely self-serving. With film, it's like, the camera can't really lie. It can manipulate to a certain extent.

  

  Jose Antonio Vargas
  • Writing
  • Past
  • Present

• Sure, I want to be the best actor in the world. But my life is my family, my son, my friends. I don't know how anyone can find fault with that.

  

  James Caan
  • Life
  • World
  • Family

• Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Earth
  • Peace
  • inspirational

• Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

  

  Ba Jin
  • Future
  • Past
  • Forget