Gao Xingjian Quotes

She says she doesn’t know what to do! But he says coldly that he knows what he wants to do, but he can’t.

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• I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.

  

  Adam Goldberg
  • Me
  • Known
  • Sure

• I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Done

• I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.

  

  Gabriel E. Gomez
  • High
  • Think
  • Bill Of Rights

• The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Problem
  • Being
  • Stage

• In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Country
  • Language

• As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Want
  • Technology
  • Medical

• I love my parents. But they have their life, and I have mine.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Parents
  • I Love
  • Llife Mine

• I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.

  

  B. B. King
  • Singing
  • Voice
  • Guitar

• We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • People
  • Challenge
  • Green

• The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Struggle

• My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Kind
  • Wife
  • Generous

• In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Strong
  • Reading
  • Christmas

• My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Fan
  • Become
  • Patriots

• One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Good
  • Important
  • Practice

• I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Country
  • Want
  • You

• The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.

  

  Caitlin Fitzgerald
  • Work
  • Business
  • Success

• It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Up
  • Power
  • Giving

• Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

  

  Bill James

• Art, like real estate, is half science, half gut. We go to a lot of art fairs. We have two full-time art experts who help me make all the decisions about how to build the corporate and personal collection and what we put in our developments. We don't let interior designers pick art for us.

  

  Jorge M. Perez
  • Time
  • Real
  • Art

• A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How does the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film's quality?

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I work with a lot of scientists, and one of the frustrating things they find is that all this fascinating stuff is being done which doesn't find its way into science fiction. They say look at the science fact pages - they're so much more imaginative than science fiction.

  

  Geoff Ryman
  • Work
  • Done
  • Science

• There were a couple of times, leading up to shooting [Ordinary World], where I was like, "Oh, my god, what did I get myself into? Hopefully, I don't ruin this guy's precious script." And then, after a couple of days of shooting, I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I've never done before, and I love making stuff.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• She says she doesn’t know what to do! But he says coldly that he knows what he wants to do, but he can’t.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • She