Lei Jun Quotes
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
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My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
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I'd really love to get back into commercials, actually. I love how quick and breezy they are. And honestly, they pay really well.
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Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
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We're just a real dirty band. We're raw, and we're rough. None of us are top-scale, top-line musicians. But I tell you what, you get your top-line musicians and see if they can entertain like us.
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It's fun to grow with a character over the course of a TV series. Video games are usually a much more condensed process.
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Playing a cop goes a long way. I have a lot of friends who are working as actors, and as soon as I started playing military characters or cops, and not the actual criminal that we're chasing on this show, they all said, 'You actually can have a career now.'
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You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.
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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.
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A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.
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My plan was never to be an actor like my father.
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When Europe dominated, there were no or few feedback loops. Or, to put it another way, there were few, if any, consequences for its behaviour towards the non-western world: relations were simply too unequal.
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The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.
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Art is the work of a human, an individual seeking to make a statement, to cause a reaction, to connect. Art is something new, every time, and art might not work, precisely because it's new, because it's human and because it seeks to connect.
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When you hear tracks everybody immediately thinks that nobody is really playing or singing. That's not the case at all.
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Things get much easier if one jumps on the bandwagon of existing trends.
