Lin Dan Quotes
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
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How I see my career is very much as an entrepreneur in the field of philanthropy.
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The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
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I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.
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A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.
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I don't have any formula. I just work with my heart, putting in a lot of hard work.
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I was not a silly kid or outgoing. In fact, I suffered from quite a bit of anxiety. I used to have panic attacks when I was a teenager, really incapacitating moments, because I had some phobias.
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
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I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.
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Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
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When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.
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Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.
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I don't give myself titles. I don't think of that.
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I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.
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I've seen incredible acts of humanity in the military because people put themselves aside, and it's about the other person.
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You're not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in - and you're willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.
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It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies … I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.
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You aren't the kind of guy who takes the law into his own hands. You left the law in other hands and it screwed you over pretty badly.
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Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu of something better, but what I call their accruing ego identity gains real strength only from wholehearted and consistent recognition of real accomplishment, that is, achievement that has meaning in their culture.
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Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cash-suspicious, unbelieving, and incurious.
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People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.
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I love badminton, and representing China is an honour for me.
