Wei Jingsheng Quotes
The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place.
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
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I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.
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That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.
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When I'm writing, I'm trying to access my subconscious and turn off my conscious brain. I use my conscious for research, but when I'm actually writing, I'm trying to get into a place where I'm tapping into the deeper, darker elements of what's going on.
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Even as I was writing 'Empire State,' I knew there were more adventures for the main character, private detective Rad Bradley, to have. I also knew that the world was far larger than what I'd presented in book one.
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The luxury we have when we do a series is that we go through a long journey, and it keeps a lot of information and things to be revealed.
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At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.
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You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
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To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting.
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I am a great movie buff, and I devour films regularly.
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Horses in the Book of Mormon would be another. You have relatively few mentions of horses, but there are some, and we don't know exactly how they were used; they don't seem to be all that common. Were they horses as we understood them, [or] does the term describe some other animal? Languages don't always and cultures don't always classify things the way we would expect. We have what we call common-sense ways of doing it. They're not common sense; they're just ours. But again, we don't have a strong case there. We're just problem solving there.
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does.
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'Dignity is like morality,' Mirabilis barked. 'Too much is as bad as too little.'
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The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place.
