Lin Dan Quotes

At every Olympic Games, anything can happen that nobody can predict, so I did my best to win.

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• When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

  

  Naomi Benaron
  • Hope
  • Want
  • Running

• There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Anger

• The Hindu nationalists see a religion near perfection save for the tampering of Muslims and Christians. So they fall upon these groups, rather than try to reform their own practices by drawing on India's sophisticated philosophical traditions.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Fall
  • Religion
  • Drawing

• Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Different
  • May
  • Understanding

• Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Work
  • Character

• Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Religion
  • Search
  • Meaning

• In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.

  

  Candice Glover
  • People
  • Judge
  • Humor

• I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Know
  • Living
  • Worst

• When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to me, and I was like, 'How do I do that?' Now it's like, 'Oh my God, my song is on the radio!'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • God
  • Dream
  • Song

• As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Done
  • Respect

• Entertainment has this way of resetting itself.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Way
  • Entertainment
  • Itself

• Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Work
  • Inspiration

• I have one of the worst voices in the history of recorded time.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Time
  • History
  • Worst

• I didn't actually know what a vegetarian was until I was 13 years old. I know in this day and age it's hard to believe that, but I think because I grew up on a farm, I wasn't indulged in magazines, newspapers, Internet, television. And so, for some reason, I was never exposed to what a vegetarian was.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Age

• Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • People
  • Help
  • Risk

• I secretly want to shave my head.

  

  Zendaya
  • Want
  • Head
  • Shave

• Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Music
  • Food
  • Passion

• Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant.

  

  Pete Waterman

• The road to freedom is full of thorns and fire, yet happy is he who follows it!

  

  Aminu Kano
  • Freedom
  • Road
  • Follows

• The main cause of failure is the inability to deal with self-doubt.

  

  Bill Bartmann
  • Failure
  • Deal
  • Self-Doubt

• When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • World
  • Debate
  • Plants

• At every Olympic Games, anything can happen that nobody can predict, so I did my best to win.

  

  Lin Dan