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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• In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
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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.

  

  Barry Hannah
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• There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?

  

  Zainab Salbi
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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.

  

  Ralph Thomas Walker
  • Character
  • Knowledge
  • Respect

• 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.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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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.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Mother
  • Wife
  • Environment

• 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.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Quality
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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.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Personality

• A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Hand
  • Should
  • Kindness

• I'm not picking up dog shit. I'm a rock star.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Star

• If your archenemy tried to kill you, this person would attempt to stop him.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Stop

• 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.

  

  Lionel Messi
  • Long
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• It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • People
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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.

  

  Alan Ball
  • America
  • Wind

• 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?'

  

  Eric Andre
  • Why
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  • Comedy

• 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.

  

  Alison Moyet
  • Money
  • Friends
  • Energy

• I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

  

  Anne Sweeney
  • Career
  • Curiosity

• 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.

  

  Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
  • World
  • Learning
  • Passion

• Growing up, as a kid, my father was always there.

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul
  • Up
  • Father
  • Growing

• It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Fools
  • Tolerate
  • Ladies

• From my experience working with comedians, there is that competitive aspect. With actors, for instance, they don't want to look competitive even if they are, whereas comedians, I think, are openly happy to play on the idea that they all compete with each other to get the laughs. There's something about comedy, I think, that encourages that. There's this kind of schoolboy sense of wanting to top the other person that we play off of to show them competing for who's smarter or cleverer.

  

  Michael Winterbottom
  • Thinking
  • Comedy
  • Laughing

• China more than two milleniums ago had already considered the idea of democracy, but at that time she could not put it into operation.

  

  Sun Yat-sen
  • Democracy
  • China
  • Operation