Ba Jin Quotes
I have spent myself on all kinds of things ... I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly.
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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I liked to play dress-up.
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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
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I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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Patients are becoming aware that they're being taken for a ride by big pharma companies. They charge high prices and have never cared for India's healthcare. There are 23 million cases of cancer every year and India has a fair share of that.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?
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5-Hour Energy is not an energy drink, it's a focus drink. But we can't say that. The FDA doesn't like the word 'focus.' I have no idea why.
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What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
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I don't subscribe to the thinking that being typecast is a bad thing.
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Life is to short to be little.
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At the beginning of the season, I set my goal to see if I can lead the league in scoring, because I feel I have that kind of ability. A lot of guys say it, but it's not really in their grasp. I feel that's really in my grasp.
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I find most meetings are a waste of time, because they are so ill-prepared and there's little opportunity for true synergy in producing better solutions than what anyone originally thought of. So I work hard to only attend those meetings that have strategic importance and miss all kinds of other seemingly urgent meetings.
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Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.
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I have spent myself on all kinds of things ... I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly.
