Barbara Demick Quotes
In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
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Social interactions have always been a bit of a difficult thing for me. I think I have a natural tendency to make people not 100 percent super comfortable.
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I'm just saying if you want to reach large audiences, then rely on professionals, meaning people who are in the industry and are trained for it, rather than just idiot savants.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
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I'm re-teaming with the producers of 'Twilight,' whom I love and who I have an amazing relationship with.
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I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.
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As per the age-old Customs and Central Excise Rules 1967, a person is allowed to carry only Rs 20,000 worth of gold.
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
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If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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I think like my dad, but I have a huge kinship with my mom.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.
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History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.
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Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.
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In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
