Ye Xiaowen Quotes
Buddhism helps people to overcome pain. The deepest pain that Chinese people feel now is the pain of separation from loved ones, one of the eight pains in Buddhism.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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I was born free.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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I love basketball.
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Sleeping is not something I do a lot of.
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I've always been a bit of an inventor, just making up weird things people haven't thought of before. I can't tell you exactly what, though, because they might actually happen one day!
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Republicans ... are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then set out to get all we can for ourselves by working hard for it, that things will be better for everyone. They are not insensitive to the poor, but tend to think the poor are impoverished because they won't work. They think there would be fewer of them to feel sorry for if the government did not encourage the proliferation of the least fit among us with welfare programs.
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Buddhism helps people to overcome pain. The deepest pain that Chinese people feel now is the pain of separation from loved ones, one of the eight pains in Buddhism.
