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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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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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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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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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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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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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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The roots that weave up my right arm and onto my neck are my way of connecting with the earth: the earth's roots carry water like a human's veins carry blood.
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If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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I always feel that crime films are about capitalism because it is a genre where it is perfectly acceptable for all the characters to be motivated by the desire for money. In some ways, the crime film is the most honest American film because it portrays Americans as I experience a lot of them, in Hollywood, as being very concerned with money.
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I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.
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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.
