Zhang Yimou Quotes
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
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I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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We have to take care of ourselves if we are going to take care of anyone else properly.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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I like to do Pilates.
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I'm really proud of all the stuff we've built with Green Lantern - from Larfleeze to the different corps. The universe has expanded and will live well past my run. It was more than just telling another story, but really giving back to the character by expanding and adding to their mythology.
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Nothing is truly unnatural, because everything that exists, including human intelligence, is a product of nature. If human intelligence can devise ways for the genes from two men to result in a child, their doing so is an entirely natural event.
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We select our furniture to serve as visible symbols of our taste, wealth, and social position. We often choose our residences on the basis of a feeling that it 'looks well' to have a 'good address.' We trade in perfectly good cars for later models, not always to get better transportation, but to give evidence to the community that we can afford it.
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The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.
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I just feel like there's something to be said about feeling comfortable with what you have and don't have. And - for instance, I don't think I'm particularly a great singer, but I feel like I write songs that complement my voice, you know, and I feel like it's unique. And I don't feel like I'm particularly a great actor, for instance, but I feel like I approach each thing that I do with some level of sensitivity. And I would say that comedy in general is the most disarming.
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HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.
