Wang Wei Quotes
The autumn hill gathers the remaining light, A flying bird chases after its companion. The green color is bright And brings me into the moment, like a sunset mist that has no fixed place.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
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I'm used to people talking about me.
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I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.
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A lot of people believe women can't do tech-y stuff. Becoming nerdy doesn't have to mean the short-haired guy, but can be the woman with very long, beautiful hair.
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If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
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Mind your till, and till your mind.
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Put your shoulder to the wheel.
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I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.
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Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.
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Knowing there is a capable back-up willing to give it a try always makes you feel better.
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I'm a dirty kid: I like to be outside, I like to run about, I like to get messy. So I spent a lot of time outside as a kid, skating and just being a disaster. I was obsessed with Dogtown - I still am obsessed with Dogtown, the Z-Boys. I love Stacy Peralta and Jay Adams and Andrew Reynolds, all these guys. I used to think I was Chad Muska.
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Here’s the thing about baseball-it’s not the individual sport I thought it was. Turns out I was wrong about that. Yeah, the batter is a lone man against the world. He stands in the batter’s box like a soldier and it’s up to him-and him alone-what happens next. But here’s the thing I didn’t understand until I was forced to, until recently: In order to hit a home run… Someone else has to pitch the ball.
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My father was short for a man, with a child's plaything for a name - Spinner. He had flawless dark brown skin and a head full of big, wet-looking curls, black as oil. And he had the smile of a scoundrel - the kind of smile that disarmed men and undressed women.
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The autumn hill gathers the remaining light, A flying bird chases after its companion. The green color is bright And brings me into the moment, like a sunset mist that has no fixed place.
