Li Na Quotes
I don't know how many years I can still play. I have to listen to my body and see how it feels.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.
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I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.
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The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.
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Everyone knows I'm a huge fan of Chris Brown and Justin Timberlake. For me, it would be more than an honor to work with these talented musicians.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
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The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices.
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Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.
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We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.
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On the day that you were bornThe angels got togetherAnd decided to create a dream come trueSo they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of goldAnd starlight in your eyes of blue.
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Understanding is a two-way street.
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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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If I weren't a Jew (in the sense in which I use the word) then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.
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Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also patterns of communal interdependence. (p. 186)
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I'm 45 years old. I used to be a club girl, but that's not my world anymore. That doesn't mean I can't make music that excites. I think it's inspiring to see an artist you grew up with take another crack.
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They American forces are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.
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I don't know how many years I can still play. I have to listen to my body and see how it feels.
