Lin Yutang Quotes
The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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I was never a critic. I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se. I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers. And I still am. I'm still a great movie fan, and I ,that love of movies is very much alive in me. I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.
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I love playing characters who are opposite of who I am.
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It is of him, ephebe, to make, to confect The final elegance, not to console Nor sanctify, but plainly to propound.
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When I was younger it was - you know, my dad dressed up in drag on 'Bosom Buddies.' And that was what I was having to deal with at the time. And then around the time that I was into college was when he became statue-worthy I guess you could say.
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'I've lost a day!'-the prince who nobly cried,Had been an emperor without his crown.
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The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.
