Guan Moye (Mo Yan) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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I go outside, and I'm wearing a funky T-shirt and my hair is dirty, and people say, 'What's wrong with her? She needs to invest in a hairbrush.'
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Passion satisfied has its innocence, almost as fragile as any other.
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Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
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Given our abundance, the burden of proof should always be on keeping, not giving. Why would you not give? We err by beginning with the assumption that we should keep or spend the money God entrusts to us. Giving should be the default choice. Unless there is a compelling reason to spend it or keep it, we should give it.
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For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.
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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to spiritual, just wonderful music where everybody can sing it.
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The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?
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The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward.
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As you get older, you like to think you get better because you're learning more.
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Therell always be some weird thing about eating four grapes before you go to bed, or drinking a special tea, or buying this little bean from El Salvador.
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It's easy to say that reducing a song to 90 seconds on "American Idol" strips off so many things, and how it's the 21st century and music doesn't mean the same things to people and that it's so disposable.
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The race needs workers, not leaders.
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We think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. The fire licks at what the wood harbors, and the wood gives itself away to that intimacy, the manner in which we and the world meet each new day.
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What can you do actually make your life sparkle, so that other people being to ask themselves: ‘how can I sparkle, too?'
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I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts.
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When someone forces me to do something I don't do it.
