Bai Ling Quotes

When you're challenged, you're totally alive and totally dealing with reality, particularly if it could be dangerous. And that excites me!

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• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Children
  • Small
  • Dad

• In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Black
  • Intellectual
  • Clear

• 'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Important
  • Family
  • Experience

• The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Up
  • Know
  • Proud

• I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Wish

• I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Goal
  • Senate
  • Emissions

• What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Artists

• It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Animal
  • More
  • Really

• But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Beginning
  • Poetry
  • Chance

• Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'

  

  Saint Basil
  • Long
  • May
  • Fear

• I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Change
  • Stop
  • Air

• It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Long
  • Now

• The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Poverty
  • Program
  • Eliminate

• I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Friend
  • Years
  • Sad

• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Guy

• I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Things
  • Worst
  • Choosing

• I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Thinking
  • Attitude
  • Box

• I love Hugh Laurie, but I don't want to be a guy who goes to work every day for nine months of the year in a corner of Burbank. I really don't. I like doing a bit here and a bit there and strange things, and I think that's held me back.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Work
  • Guy

• The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.

  

  David Attenborough
  • Hope
  • Optimistic

• Well, I've been to Iraq twice now. I was in Baghdad in June and then north of Baghdad in November.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Now
  • November
  • June

• Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.

  

  Zeena Schreck
  • Different
  • Animal
  • Identity

• In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth.

  

  Michael Leunig
  • Speak
  • Order
  • Truthful

• When you're challenged, you're totally alive and totally dealing with reality, particularly if it could be dangerous. And that excites me!

  

  Bai Ling
  • Reality