Li Ka-shing Quotes
We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.
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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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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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My favourite flowers are English country roses - I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.
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Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
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Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.
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I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.
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If I wasn't going through a thing where I was also being my characters offstage, uh, I'm much happier just wearing the most low-profile things that I can come up with just so I can get down the street.
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The light of conscience ... enters the eyes of the soul, as the light of the sun enters the eyes of the body; and to open the former requires no greater effort than to open the latter.
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In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.
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Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.
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Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.
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We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.
