Wang Yangming Quotes

The inferior man attempts a hundred intrigues in order to save himself, but finishes only in creating a greater calamity from which he cannot run.

Wang Yangming

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• When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'

  

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• He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

  

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• When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?

  

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• I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

  

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• I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.

  

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• I call myself a constitutional conservative.

  

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• If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.

  

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• I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.

  

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• As a presidential candidate, Mr. Trump is going to get tough questions from the press and has to answer them.

  

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• The transition from the original Xbox to the Wii wasn't a big deal for my team. The business hadn't changed fundamentally.

  

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• I did Jay Leno with Mike the Situation, and he just - he lives, like, ten minutes from me in Jersey. He's like, 'If you ever get a flat, call me. I'll come fix your tire.' That's how we do. That's neighborly, you know?

  

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• Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.

  

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• When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.

  

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• I think that's what is so cool about performing. When there is a show to do, you get up there and do it.

  

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• The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.

  

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• She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

  

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• Without (my wife) Laurie, I would never be here right now, I know that. I would either be in a coffin, or stashed away doing a life sentence some place. Or running and hiding some place, if I was still alive. I'm certain I wouldn't be playing music. She's just been perfect for me. And she's a protector also; she protects me from myself, from temptations, and bad associations. She's constantly shielding me from walking the red hot coals of existing as a game.

  

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• My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren't able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.

  

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• What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?

  

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• I like Yorkshire Tea - very strong and English.

  

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• Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or there are just fewer opportunities for them to do behave badly. You can't go around running red lights if there aren't any red lights to run.

  

  Linwood Barclay
  • Running
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  • Red

• The inferior man attempts a hundred intrigues in order to save himself, but finishes only in creating a greater calamity from which he cannot run.

  

  Wang Yangming
  • Running
  • Greater
  • Hundred