Zong Qinghou Quotes
For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.
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You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.
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I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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I think I'm bad luck for Tiger because he missed the cut in Charlotte with me. But yeah, those are two of the best players of all time. Tiger's the best player of all time in my opinion, so when he's not in the field, it's a relief because he's such a great player.
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.
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Money and riches don't mean nothing to me. I don't care nothing about being no rich individual. I'm not living for glory or for fame; all this is doomed for destruction. You got it today, tomorrow it's gone. I got bigger things on my mind than that. I got Islam on my mind.
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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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True love opens the gates of time.
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If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I'll probably abandon it immediately.
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To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.
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For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.
