Adrienne von Speyr Quotes
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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Without a dog, you'll be without at least one creature who thinks you are the smartest, most decent and heroic human being on the planet.
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It's how the '70s were for movies, the 2000s are for TV. I think it's a phenomenal time for TV and to be involved in it.
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Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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If you're 15 and you tell someone a secret, they can put it up on Facebook. If you make a mistake, someone films it on their mobile and puts it up on YouTube. When you're 15, you deserve privacy.
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The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
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The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't work, because writers, in order to write good characters, need to understand people. You need to understand your audience. You need to have so much empathy you could almost encourage empathy in others.
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I don't like modeling, but in terms of the places I got to visit, it was great.
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When you're a skateboarder or a snowboarder, it affects the way you talk, the way you move, the way you interact with the world and other people.
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In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way.
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The more we help others, the more we help ourselves.
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No man (sic) has learned to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. Length without breadth is like a self-contained tributary having no outward flow to the ocean. Stagnant, still and stale, it lacks both life and freshness. In order to live creatively and meaningfully, our self-concern must be wedded to other concerns.
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I just had fun making the movies - just being on set - but I didn't really care about the acting part.
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I think Russia is a difficult country, and it's very difficult for people to adapt here, especially if they don't speak the language well.
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Whoever wants to love is better knowing nothing than too much.
