Zhang Zhidong Quotes
Foreigners can only fight with success in the summer. We can fight during any of the four seasons, so we have the weather on our side.
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The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.
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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
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On privacy issues, it's just like hundreds of years ago when people said, 'I would rather put my money under my pillow than in a bank.' But today, banks know how to protect money much better than you do. Today, we may not have the answers to privacy issues, but I believe our young people will come up with the solutions.
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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots are on the wall. So yeah, we just throw darts at the ones we don't want anymore.
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One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death.
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When I write music, these colors pop out of me. It's hard to describe, but basically when I write music, I paint, and I add colors, and I add notes.
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Britain's unique success as an industrialised nation-state prompted strong imitative endeavours not only across Europe, but also in Asia. Now many people, who were once humiliated into a sense of nationality by British rule, loom larger than their former masters.
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I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.
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Foreigners can only fight with success in the summer. We can fight during any of the four seasons, so we have the weather on our side.
