Lin Dan Quotes
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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My credentials, briefly: I no longer go to church or believe in God, but I can still name every one of the fruits of the Spirit and reeled for days upon hearing the announcement that Audio Adrenaline was reunited with one of the singers from DC Talk.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
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I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.
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Everyone in the street where I grew up was given the same message: You can be anything; you can do anything. That wasn't extraordinary; that was ordinary for us. My folks didn't believe in black exceptionalism. There's nothing exceptional about 'You can have that, too' - except when it comes to justice. You can't have that.
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I've done a dozen or two dozen infomercials.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.
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I had the feeling that as a soldier I didn't do what I thought I had it in me to do, and wanted to do.
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I'm no longer young, but I still enjoy the competition and the feeling of that.
