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.

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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 just do these 'Sleep' type tracks when the situation presents itself. I never set out to do them, like wait all day until I'm really tired or something. Gotta come natural.

  

  Aaron Funk
  • Day
  • Sleep
  • Tired

• 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

• Individuality is founded in feeling

  

  William James
  • Feelings
  • inspirational
  • Individuality

• After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist.

  

  Alex Scarrow
  • Mind
  • Genius
  • Palace

• Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Foreign
  • Article
  • Impresses

• Sometimes, the supposedly weak groups turn out to be very difficult, and the supposedly strong ones are easier to take control of.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Strong
  • Control
  • Sometimes

• Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.

  

  Peter Stuyvesant
  • War
  • Peace
  • Blessed

• 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