Chungliang Al Huang Quotes
When you wake up in the morning, you must really wake up totally-physically and mentally. Otherwise, don't bother with the day.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life. I try to keep that as much in balance with work as I can.
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If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information.
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When you get out there on the mound, you've got what you've got, and you got to figure out a way to get outs.
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When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.
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I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.
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I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.
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Let's not play games. What I was suggesting - you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.
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In her sepulcher there by the sea - In her tomb by the sounding sea.
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Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.
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There's only so much you can say about celebrity, obviously.
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I would say I'm a nice person, and I take pride in the fact that I treat everyone really well, so there's no reason for anyone to ever come at me because I only want the best for everybody else.
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You need to identify the steps at which contamination can occur - those are the critical control points. You take steps to make sure that that doesn't happen. And you monitor and evaluate and test to make sure that your system is working properly. And if it's done diligently and done faithfully and monitored carefully, then they're producing safe food. And no astronaut of which I'm aware has ever gotten food poisoning in outer space.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.
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Leadership is an intense journey into yourself. You can use your own style to get anything done. It's about being self-aware. Every morning, I look in the mirror and say, 'I could have done three things better yesterday.'
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When you wake up in the morning, you must really wake up totally-physically and mentally. Otherwise, don't bother with the day.
