Bai Ling Quotes
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I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.
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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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As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.
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Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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I can always go back to education.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
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I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.
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The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or fact, as it is to use the trolley when one needs transportation.
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I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.
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I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.
