Lin Yutang Quotes
He who perceives death perceives a sense of the human comedy, and quickly becomes a poet.
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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
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I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.
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Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.
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Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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I'm not really very ambitious.
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Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.
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A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.
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The funny thing about cinema is, usually when they do a story that has African Americans in it, there always has to be a white guy who's the savior.
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One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents and sat in front of the fairly new black and white television, watching a grainy image of a man in a white suit climbing down a ladder. It was the first moon landing, and I became a sort of spaceman, as many kids were.
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He who perceives death perceives a sense of the human comedy, and quickly becomes a poet.
