Li Na Quotes
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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You're either ghetto or you're not.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding and highly critical.
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I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard.
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The greatest food city in the world is New York City, just in terms of depth and breadth, variety, size, infrastructure.
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Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
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The fact that some of these Arab states are willing to make this public is heartening, and it's a fair response to the Sharon government for the courage which the Sharon government has shown in moving out of Gaza and those four West Bank settlements.
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I love New York City.
