Zhuge Liang Quotes
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
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I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.
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That Lana Del Rey is quite cute, isn't she? I quite like her.
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I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.
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Where the bricks are fallen We will build with new stone Where the beams are rotten We will build with new timbers Where the word is unspoken We will build with new speech There is work together A Church for all And a job for each Every man to his work.
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In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
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I have not been without battle. Bitter affliction was frequent Between me and my cousins. Frequent trials fell Between me and my fellow-countrymen. There was frequent contention Between me and the wretched.
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On 'Scandal,' the majority of the cast, if not all of the cast, comes from theater, so it's a healthy environment. People come into work and actually go home to their families.
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I have a hard time recalling the titles of books.
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I think I'd be too scared to direct my first movie and put myself in the center.
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I'm the most awkward person in the world, but onstage, I'm completely fine. I could run around in a thong and not care.
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Steve Coogan does something for me. He is so naughty, but I quite fancy him.
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Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly.
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Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected volume, which came out about few years ago. I didn't think of Winter Journal, for example, as an autobiography, or a memoir. What it is is a literary work, composed of autobiographical fragments, but trying to attain, I hope, the effect of music.
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I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind.
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I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.
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The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
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Detach from emotions and desires; get rid of any fixations.
