Lin Yutang Quotes
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.
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Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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I've been training quite hard.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
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Heroism is heroism, regardless of the timeframe or the backdrop.
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As I'm getting older, I feel like maybe I need to grow up a bit.
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Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life.
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That's the way life is: meaning is always there, but there is no clearly given way of decoding it. Conventional cinema obscures this with an easy reduction of meaning to plot and schematic characters.
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The wise man reads both books and life itself.
