Lin Yutang Quotes
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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I never dreamt to be a princess in my life; I really dreamt to be an actress, but I dreamt of princesses on screen.
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Save the stonewall to build the levees.
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If you love people you criticize them, and if you don't love them you don't criticize them, you let them go to hell, don't you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.
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I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.
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I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.
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Human life can be lived like a poem.
