Xun Kuang Quotes

I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.

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• I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.

  

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• I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.

  

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• Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
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• Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

  

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• We were descended from royalty.

  

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• It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.

  

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• Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

  

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• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
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• I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.

  

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• The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • High
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• I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.

  

  Paddy Considine
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• There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.

  

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• Every drama requires a cast. The cast may be so huge, as in Leo Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina,' that the author or editor provides a list of characters to keep them straight. Or it may be an intimate cast of two.

  

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• I'm a guy, but I'm not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I'm watching a movie, I'll sometimes shed a tear, especially 'Moulin Rouge'.

  

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• I was afraid of Korean food when I moved to L.A., let alone sushi. I remember thinking either sink or swim. Living here in Studio City, Ventura Blvd. is the Mecca of sushi restaurants. What you thought was so exotic is just run of the mill.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
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• I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.

  

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• We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.

  

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• When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

  

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• Revolutions go not backward.

  

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• We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights.

  

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• There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Nature
  • Study
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• I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.

  

  Nancy Lublin
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• It's easy to get tired of religious fundamentalists. They're such a bore. They have no sense of mystery. It's a drag, man.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Religious
  • Tired

• I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Nature
  • Beginning
  • Effort