Chungliang Al Huang Quotes
For true peace of mind we must acknowledge whatever fault we live upon, whatever time bomb ticks in our closet, and enjoy our Shangri-la nonetheless. It isn't the absence of the problem; it is how one lives in its presence that matters.
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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We've got to win them all and get help from other teams, but we are going to push until the end.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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I always wanted to be an ambassador.
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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I never thought that I'd be dancing with Shia LaBeouf. When I heard he was going to be my partner, I was like, 'Does he even dance?' He doesn't, really, but he's such a sweet person.
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For every $10 you reduce the price of the smartphone, 100 million more people will buy them.
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Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
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The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.
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I like nature but not its substitutes. Naturalist art, illusionism, is a substitute for nature. I remember that in arguing with Piet Mondrian in Paris, 1920's, he opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not share this opinion. I do not think that nature is in natural opposition to art. Art's origins are natural.
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Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
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For true peace of mind we must acknowledge whatever fault we live upon, whatever time bomb ticks in our closet, and enjoy our Shangri-la nonetheless. It isn't the absence of the problem; it is how one lives in its presence that matters.
