Barbara Demick Quotes
China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
Barbara Demick
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
Laraine Day
It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
Victoria Woodhull
Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
Larry Ellison
The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
Fabiola Gianotti
It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
Randa Haines
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
Aaron Swartz
I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
Zainab Salbi
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Pablo Picasso
Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
Van Morrison
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
Karl Kraus
One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
Patricia Schroeder
Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.
Adam Davidson
We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
Oscar Wilde
One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.
Itzhak Perlman
I go through cycles with my writing. I have cycles where I'm up all night and lose track of time, and then I go for months without a thing to write about. My song 'So Good, So Right' came to me while I was washing dishes after a dinner party.
Brenda Russell
It is not the 'greatness,' the intensity, of the emotions, the components, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure, so to speak, under which the fusion takes place, that counts.
T. S. Eliot
China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
Barbara Demick
