Wei Jingsheng Quotes

The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place.

Wei Jingsheng

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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.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Life
  • Help

• 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.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Drama

• Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Friends
  • Environment
  • Leadership

• Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Broken
  • Stand
  • Would

• 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.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• I'm really interested in playing my age.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Age
  • Really
  • Interested

• Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • American
  • Help
  • Confidence

• 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.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Work
  • Movie

• 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.

  

  Halsey
  • Life
  • Home
  • Guy

• 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.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Brain

• 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.

  

  Tcheky Karyo
  • Long
  • Journey
  • Information

• You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Long
  • Want
  • Baseball

• 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.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Life
  • Time
  • Character

• I am a great movie buff, and I devour films regularly.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Movie
  • Films
  • Devour

• Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • War
  • Man

• It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Music
  • Joy

• Any change in routine was terrifying, even if it involved less violence rather than more.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Violence

• Yet the Fascist State is unique, and an original creation. It is not reactionary, but revolutionary, in that it anticipates the solution of the universal political problems which elsewhere have to be settled in the political field by the rivalry of parties, the excessive power of the Parliamentary regime and the irresponsibility of political assemblies.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Power
  • Political
  • Unique

• Most of us forget the basics and wonder why the specifics don't work.

  

  Garrison Wynn
  • Wonder
  • Forget
  • Basics

• By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Writing
  • History
  • Age

• Why can't I make up my own characters and paint the people I want to see in the world? I'm depicting the many people who existed in history but whose presence was never documented.

  

  Amy Sherald
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• That one record changed everything for me. After Sgt. Pepper, it's the most influential record in the history of rock and roll. It affected Pink Floyd deeply, deeply, deeply. Philosophically, other albums may have been more important, like Lennon's first solo album. But sonically, the way the record's constructed, I think Music from Big Pink is fundamental to everything that happened after it.

  

  Roger Waters Pink Floyd
  • Music
  • History
  • Record

• The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place.

  

  Wei Jingsheng
  • History
  • Place
  • Gone