Gao Xingjian Quotes
Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing
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I would not describe my personality. And I think when you describe people, you are making a mistake. That's not how they are; that's how you perceive them at that moment. It's limiting in front of something that is magnificent and unlimited: life.
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One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned.
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
