Wei Jingsheng Quotes
Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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I love baseball, and the door remains open.
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Understanding the intentions of a play is so key because you can block a guy into the running back if you don't know how the play is supposed to work or where the back is going to come out.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
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Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?
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My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.
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No agency is better than its account executives.
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You fall for who the chemistry is with.
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I love all sports! I'm always impressed by athletes. I also love watching the Olympic Games. In high school, I played co-ed soccer and basketball. I really enjoyed both of those sports, but I have to admit basketball wasn't my calling.
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God bless those employees at United who somehow continue to be gracious and patient and generous with customers even while bearing the brunt of a broken company themselves.
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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
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All that would remain of me would be the raincoat I’d been wearing, rolled on a bench.
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The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'.
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When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... This violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people.
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You looked so intense. Whatever you were saying, you seemed to mean it, and it wasn't amusing at all. Started quite a fashion. People keep looking for purpose now. Complicates everything.
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Let's ask ourselves: Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million new lawsuits coursing through the system annually? Is it right that people with disputes come up against staggering expense and delay?
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I think I've been lucky in the regard to have a team that sees me as an artist.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Yet people who benefit from all this now viciously defy Westminster, purporting to act as though they were an elected government; people who spend their lives sponging on Westminster and British democracy and then systematically assault democratic methods. Who do these people think they are?
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Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.
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Pnin slowly walked under solemn pines. The sky was dying. He did not believe in an autocratic God. He did believe, dimly, in a democracy of ghosts. The souls of the dead, perhaps, formed committees, and these, in continuous session, attended the destinies of the quick.
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Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.
