Lin Dan Quotes

Lee is such a brilliant rival. I treasure the opportunities we have to play each other.

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• I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.

  

  Ed Asner
  • God
  • Believe
  • Myself

• The future is much like the present, only longer.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Future
  • Present
  • Like

• My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Thinking
  • Feeling
  • Acting

• The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Up
  • Great
  • Business

• As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.

  

  Hank Stram
  • People
  • Life
  • Day

• I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Star
  • System
  • Astronomy

• You get to a point where everything is so important. One day you have 'Letterman,' and the next day you're at the MTV Movie Awards, and the next day you have a sold-out show for over 15,000 people. You can't cancel anything, because it's just too much to let everyone down, which is an interesting thing about being in a bigger band.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Important
  • Movie

• Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Ideas

• There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they've shared their life for 20 or 30 years.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Marriage

• I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Funny
  • Thought
  • Beauty

• I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Science
  • Political
  • College

• How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Think
  • Know
  • See

• Of course my life has changed because now everybody knows who Felix Baumgartner is.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Now

• My dad was around every second. Teaching me the game.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Game
  • Me
  • Dad

• I applied my reason at every moment. Reason is excellent for getting food, clothing and shelter. Reason is the very best tool kit. Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Food
  • Universe
  • Risk

• The fearless make their own way.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Fearless

• The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.

  

  Alan Kay
  • Good
  • Done
  • Design

• When I tell my colleagues that I remember 1969, 1974 and 1987, their eyes glaze over, but I'm afraid I do remember them, and I therefore err on the side of caution.

  

  Johann Rupert
  • Remember
  • Eyes

• Surely, if we are going to be better at producing food of the right value, then we have to accept that genetic technology... is going to be part of that.

  

  Princess Anne
  • Food
  • Technology
  • Genetic

• My country's history, Mr. President, tells us that it is possible to fashion unity while cherishing diversity, that common action is possible despite the variety of races, interests, and beliefs we see here in this chamber. Progress and peace and justice are attainable. So we say to all peoples and governments: Let us fashion together a new world order.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • History
  • Mr. President
  • Progress

• We do not believe in quotas. They would not only be undesirable, they would be illegal. There is legal protection for the autonomy of universities in running their own admission arrangements.

  

  David Willetts
  • Running
  • Protection
  • Arrangements

• Independence was a big, big thing for me. I saw my voice as a way out - when my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Up
  • Music
  • Parents

• Lee is such a brilliant rival. I treasure the opportunities we have to play each other.

  

  Lin Dan