Jack Ma Quotes
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
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I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.
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In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.
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I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
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I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.
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Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
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I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
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I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
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The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.
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I don't think fashion is evil.
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I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie.
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The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary
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I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.
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Life and career are the same thing. Every life has to have a plot and a plan. You have to recognize this early and be quite cold-blooded in the discovery and articulation of that plot.
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The United States Constitution grants education decision authority to the states and localities not to the president of the United States.
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I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.
