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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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 honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
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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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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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I love girl power.
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A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.
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I try to stay focused on my creativity.
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After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.
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My grandma passed away from cancer, and actually, when I was 18, I had an experience with melanoma – it's in the family. I had that experience where everything comes into perspective. It's the weirdest thing, 'cause you're like, 'It will never happen to me,' and when it does, it's like, 'OK, wow.'
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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.
