Sun Yat-sen Quotes
We must wait for the official history of the Chinese Revolution to record in greater detail the invaluable work of our Japanese friends.
Quotes to Explore
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.
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Coffee is my water now.
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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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It's not how much something's worth today, it's what it's worth in five or 10 years.
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Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.
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A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.
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Netflix has always had this interesting ability to get non-mainstream content to be watched by the mainstream.
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The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.
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If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I like it – but to talk about it years later is not logical to me.
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Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
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I think that as women sometimes, we put ourselves secondary because we kind of lose ourselves and the part of us that makes us awesome.
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The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
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Television itself is an intimate medium. It's in your house. You're visiting with these people... Not everybody's going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that's life - especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself.
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I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves.
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Everybody's got a puncher's chance in this game. I mean every single person on Earth. But my whole focus, my whole style, my whole dynamic is built around taking that power away from you. So where is the logic in why you're different from anybody else? There is no logic in it.
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We must wait for the official history of the Chinese Revolution to record in greater detail the invaluable work of our Japanese friends.
