Gao Xingjian Quotes
As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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My dad's paternal grandparents were musically inclined. And I remember as a little kid going to visit them in their senior building, and they were, like, the stars of the building, especially hosting and performing in their senior talent show.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
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Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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I came from Brooklyn. My nickname was Moochie.
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Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.
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I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.
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If you are good to people, they reciprocate with good behaviour.
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As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.
