Li Lu Quotes
I think we Chinese are just as capable, as diligent, as hardworking, as peace-loving, and as creative as people everywhere.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
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I know what poverty is.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
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When people talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
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I don't have time to have friends come and stay, except on weekends in Maine. I invite a lot of people to come to Maine.
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I think we Chinese are just as capable, as diligent, as hardworking, as peace-loving, and as creative as people everywhere.
