Jack Ma Quotes
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.
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I really know right from wrong and apply that to my life. At home, I was the oldest of three. My role was to be the responsible one.
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What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.
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Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had.
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Every time there's an election, people start to criticize China.
