Lin Dan Quotes
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.
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Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.
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I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.
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Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.
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My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.
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There are no regions in the world as reciprocally integrated as Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.
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The operation was wildly out of proportion to the threat. It would compromise our moral position in the world and make it impossible for us to protest treaty violations by the Communists.
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Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.
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A notable scheme has occurred to me.
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When I decided to come back, I wanted to prove to the rest of the world I'm still the best.
