Ziya Tong Quotes
“We may well be the only species on Earth to actively deprive our own kind from inhabiting a space when it is available.”
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
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A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.
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I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!
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Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.
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The same things we've done the past couple of seasons. We've worked on the engine and clutch. We'll try and pick up the performance and consistency of the car and go back out there.
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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Vegetarians should have that moral basis-that a man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows.
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Lo! Death has reared himself a throneIn a strange city lying aloneFar down within the dim West,Where the good and the bad and the worst and the bestHave gone to their eternal rest.
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And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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As an actor, I don't want an image. I want people to see the character, not me.
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Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.
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Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves.
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I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis.
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“We may well be the only species on Earth to actively deprive our own kind from inhabiting a space when it is available.”
