Wu Guoguang Quotes

The only option for a pure idealist is to commit suicide.

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• Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Me
  • Place
  • Everything

• I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Technology

• I love playing women, and I think that this is a throughline to a lot of the characters I've played - they all have this aspect of being wronged. And I think, a lot of the time, the characters are actually wronged by themselves, and they find someone else to blame it on.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Time
  • Women
  • Love

• More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Eyes
  • More
  • Ears

• The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Up
  • World
  • Over

• I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Grandparents
  • Ashamed
  • Slaves

• On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Acting
  • Clothes
  • Lipstick

• Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Done
  • Power
  • Know

• If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

  

  Rachel True
  • You
  • Enough
  • Where

• Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.

  

  Ian Hart
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Responsibility
  • Actions
  • Cnn

• If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Nice
  • Queen
  • Title

• Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Fire
  • Creativity
  • Intelligence

• While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Grief

• When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don’t forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Words
  • Justice
  • Farewell

• Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Moving

• Mind your till, and till your mind.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Mind

• If you’re going to do something that crazy, save it for when it’ll make a difference. But absent near-omniscience there’s no way to know when that is. You can only make your best approximate calculation. You can only make your throw and try to puzzle out the results afterward.

  

  Ann Leckie
  • Crazy

• Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever / Only, nothing is eternal.

  

  Audre Lorde
  • Time
  • Forever

• Certainly there are dozens of over-50 actresses who look great: Sophia Loren, Susan Sarandon, Ursula Andress, Stefanie Powers, Raquel Welch, Barbara Eden, Joanna Lumley, Linda Gray - the list is endless, and these are just the actresses! I have many friends in their 60s, 70s and 80s, not in the limelight, but who all look absolutely stunning.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Great
  • Friends

• The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Live
  • Attention
  • Die

• When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I think there's a lot that can be done to make the world a better place, but it's more about choosing your battles.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Done

• Designers can show us a better future, can present us with all kinds of new possibilities so that we can decide: Is this what we want? Before any of that can happen, though, the designer must first commit—by taking what is just a faint glimmer in the mind’s eye and giving it shape and life.

  

  Warren Berger
  • Future
  • Want
  • Giving

• The only option for a pure idealist is to commit suicide.

  

  Wu Guoguang
  • Suicide
  • Commit
  • Idealist