Lin Yutang Quotes
A mellow understanding of life and of human nature is, and always has been, the Chinese ideal of character, and from that understanding other qualities are derived, such as pacifism, contentment, calm and strength of endurance which distinguish the Chinese character.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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It's a privilege to do what I do for a living - to take people out of their miserable day, or to educate somebody, or make somebody laugh, or fall in love with an idea. How good is that? And I get paid to do it!
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The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
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It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.
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Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced; but "lies asleep."
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Arguing with reality is like trying to teach a cat to bark-hopeless.
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A mellow understanding of life and of human nature is, and always has been, the Chinese ideal of character, and from that understanding other qualities are derived, such as pacifism, contentment, calm and strength of endurance which distinguish the Chinese character.
