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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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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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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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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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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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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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 think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness, something that the show's more militant characters can't see.
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When I go into a store and find a T-shirt that's well-designed with a great fabric but the fit is all wrong, the T-shirt is ruined for me.
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I like Scott Caan. I think he's a great young kid. I think he's gonna have a really huge career.
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I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.
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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.
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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.
