Lin Yutang Quotes
A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.
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I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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I am not honest.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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Everyone has a crazy old lady in their family like 'Mama.' No one ever comes up to me and says 'Mama' is just like them, so no one is ever offended by her. Even young people like to laugh at her. I think she helps kids appreciate their own grandmothers more.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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I can't wait to meet Jennifer Hudson, Tamyra Gray, George Huff, Ruben Studdard, and I love me some Clay Aiken.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
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I really got to see my dad enjoy every day that he was working. Everybody should be able to have this much fun when they go to work.
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I wasn't perfect and didn't have it together. I felt alone. So through acting, I decided to be a shape shifter and with every role become the character instead of being myself. It meant about 10 years of no one knowing I was the same person in every movie.
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There are many films in which minority groups are caricatured to the point where truth is all together lost. There are many more films, good in general, but untrue in their presentation of the Negro's life as totally divorced from the Caucasian's or the Caucasian's from the Negro.
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I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.
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Look, if you're driving down the highway at 120 miles an hour, I'd rather be behind the wheel than in the backseat.
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A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.
