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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No, I don't think I'm ever going to get serious.
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On her UNICEF work: I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth. ... I do not want to see mothers and fathers digging graves for their children.
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Doing a play, you have a little bit more time, obviously. You rehearse for a month before you get up in front of people. It's a totally different energy. With film, TV, you want to try to capture lightning-in-a-bottle moments. I don't try to rehearse as much with that stuff, because you want those sparks of something to come out, if they do.
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In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.
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Nothing would have shocked Proust more than to hear that his work was perceived as difficult or inaccessibly rarefied.
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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.
