Gao Xingjian Quotes
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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It's nice to work with your own alma mater.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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I can't wait to meet Jennifer Hudson, Tamyra Gray, George Huff, Ruben Studdard, and I love me some Clay Aiken.
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Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?
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At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
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When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who she is.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.
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The best good man, with the worst natur'd muse.
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With 'Harry Potter,' I've been all over the world. I probably wouldn't have gone to New York so young if it weren't for the films.
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Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.
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This is our moment...while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.
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A good man never fights with a woman.
