Ba Jin Quotes
Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.
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I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.
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Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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I grew up pretty much entertaining myself. So I know what its like to be in a room by myself and having fun with something.
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Being successful is something that's sometimes hard to deal with.
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Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.
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In every combustion there is disengagement of the matter of fire or of light. A body can burn only in pure air [oxygen]. There is no destruction or decomposition of pure air and the increase in weight of the body burnt is exactly equal to the weight of air destroyed or decomposed. The body burnt changes into an acid by addition of the substance that increases its weight. Pure air is a compound of the matter of fire or of light with a base. In combustion the burning body removes the base, which it attracts more strongly than does the matter of heat, which appears as flame, heat and light.
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Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.
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Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.
