Lin Yutang Quotes
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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I don't do negative things.
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God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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I invested all my money in debt.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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I think the reason why a lot of the Spanish films do so well, and are so well done, is because the public really respects it and wants it.
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My side, I am a liberal more than a Democrat.
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I find people to be people everywhere. Everyone wants the same thing - be successful.
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My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.
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I don't mind sitting at home for six months if there's no film that I want to do.
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No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
