Zhang Zhidong Quotes
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
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Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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The E.U. can deliver on its citizens' needs and make its partnerships work only if we all act together - E.U. institutions and national governments, at all levels, united.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
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My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir!
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We know that people are less open in conversations if the other conversant puts a cell phone on the table. Even if it's turned off. The sign is enough to close the mind and make a prospective client or lover less likely to do what you ask. As people realize this, they'll start putting away phones or turning them off.
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I don't think that people generally realize what the motion picture industry has done to the American Indian, as a matter of fact, all ethnic groups. All minorities. All non-whites. People just simply don't realize. They take it for granted that that's the way people are going to be presented and that these cliches are just going to be perpetuated.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.
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Our soldiers and people form one family. United, we may count on victory.
