Buwei Yang Chao Quotes
I learned that in dealing with things, you spent much more time and energy in dealing with people than in dealing with things.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.
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One of the first acts during the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997 was a major board overhaul.
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I haven't been to Berlin Fashion Week before, but it's really on the up. Being an artist as well as a model, I know that the art world is booming here, so it makes sense that fashion would feel that effect, too.
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One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
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My father managed shopping malls when I was a kid, and my high school job was to dress up in an elf costume and take photos of kids sitting on Santa Claus's lap.
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It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
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Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
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I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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My view is quite simple. When your dog pees on the carpet, you do not give away your dog. You say, This dog is special. I have to teach him not to pee on the carpet. I feel exactly the same way about men. They need to be taught things.
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Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.
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Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.
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I learned that in dealing with things, you spent much more time and energy in dealing with people than in dealing with things.
