Sun Yat-sen Quotes
China more than two milleniums ago had already considered the idea of democracy, but at that time she could not put it into operation.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
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When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.
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The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist's choice.
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I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.
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A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.
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If your archenemy tried to kill you, this person would attempt to stop him.
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Barcelona gave me everything, they took a chance on me when nobody else would. I never have any desire to play for anybody else, I will be here for as long as they want me.
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It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.
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Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.
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Half the shows on Comedy Central are just multi-cam blue sets, and they kind of look like game shows from the '90s. It's like, 'Why do such a bland corporate aesthetic when the sky's the limit with what you can do?'
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In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills. It was more about the ethos and the energy.
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I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'
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I have always been intrigued by other cultures, and traveling to foreign lands has always been a part of my personal passion for learning about our world.
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Nothing has ever come easy for me.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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You can have a lot of New York and still see what's going on in the rest of the world, I think - like in China.
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China more than two milleniums ago had already considered the idea of democracy, but at that time she could not put it into operation.
