Gao Xingjian Quotes

What is essential is whether it is perceived and not whether it exists. To exist and yet not to be perceived is the same as not exist.

Gao Xingjian

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• I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Endless
  • Tire
  • Sequels

• I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • People
  • Money
  • Think

• The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • True
  • New York

• Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Me
  • Healthy
  • Starting

• For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Knowledge

• It's not an easy task to match Charan. He is really a good dancer, and he comes straight to the sets without rehearsals.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Task

• Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Good
  • Children
  • Best

• I'm just a worker.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Just
  • Worker

• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Freedom
  • Worth
  • Having

• I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Love
  • Timing
  • Austin

• I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Listening
  • Tired
  • Petty

• For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination

• I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Know
  • Reading
  • Dying

• I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • World
  • War
  • Training

• Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • World
  • Great
  • Technology

• I'm not a tough boss in that I don't raise my voice, I don't freak out, and I don't have a temper most of the time.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Boss

• I'm very sad 'Life' wasn't a big hit, But it was undone by politics at NBC. It was intense. I moved my wife, and we had two children back to back. So working those hours and living abroad in L.A. was a handful. But it was a great experience.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Great
  • Children

• I never understood who all those people are behind the actors! When you see them on the red carpet on TV, you go, 'Why does that person need such a large entourage?' And then you realize that every single person there has a role to play.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • People
  • Why
  • Single

• I had constant communication with the Red Sox, and they were awesome all the way through. It became clear I wasn't going to be ready to start the season, so it didn't make sense to hold that roster spot. I had nothing but great support from the Red Sox.

  

  Gabe Kapler
  • Communication
  • Constant
  • Red Sox

• Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Hide
  • Inclination

• What doesn't kill you, if you use it to make yourself stronger, then you will get stronger. But if you let it beat you down, then you will be weaker.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • Stronger
  • Weaker

• On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to this government's farm policy. On the other hand, the Republicans are telling the farmers that the high cost of manufactured goods on the farm is due to this government's labor policy. That's plain hokum. It's an old political trick: "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em." But this time it won't work.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Republicans
  • Industrial workers
  • Government's farm policy

• What is essential is whether it is perceived and not whether it exists. To exist and yet not to be perceived is the same as not exist.

  

  Gao Xingjian