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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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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I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.
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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 am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now.
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Audiences don't come to theatres going by reviews. Even if a film is rated low, the collections won't get affected.
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I was never an R&B artist. People coined me one, but that's because, especially if you're in the States, if you're black and you sing, then you're R&B.
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I am primarily a lawyer. I would rather play in the game than be the umpire.
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I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.
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To have won a place in his heart among all those he has mentored and created, itself is a distinction.
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Self-knowledge - the bitterest knowledge of all and also the kind we cultivate least: what is the use of catching ourselves out, morning to night, in the act of illusion, pitilessly tracing each act back to its root, and losing case after case before our own tribunal?
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I feel like I'm worried about my later years in life because I feel like I'm using up so much good karma right now. There's going to be some sort of karmic backlash somewhere down the road.
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How could somebody be comfortable with authorizing legally the use of lethal force? My view is if you become comfortable with it, then you should get out of the job.
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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.
