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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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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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 quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.
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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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People think in Hollywood there's a family, where everybody gets together talks about stuff and we all know each other, and it's just not that way at all to me.
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If a girl came up to me and asked me out, that's a little forward. Guys like it when girls play hard to get!
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I like playing at public schools. I like when there's more of a diverse audience. I'll play wherever people want to hear my music, and I'll be glad and grateful for the opportunity, but I'd rather not play for a bunch of white privileged kids. I'm not meaning that in a disrespectful way; you go where people want to hear your music. So if that's where people want to hear me play, I'm glad to play for them. But I'd rather play for an audience where half of them were not into it than one where all of them were pretending to be into it, for fear of being uncultured.
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There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.
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The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.
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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.
