Xun Kuang Quotes
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.
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Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
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My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.
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To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
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Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.
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We make movies that crack us up and hope that they crack up other people, too.
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We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.
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It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
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I think anytime you work on something, even if you feel really good about it, you're never really sure. Once it's in the public space, it's out of my hands.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
