Lin Yutang Quotes
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
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Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.
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I certainly think it's really important that folks in the metropolitan area be able to meet the increased cost of living.
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I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.
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When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.
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Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
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Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
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Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's responsibility.
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You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.
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Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.
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Who are you and who am I To say we know the reason why Some are born, some men die, Beneath one infinite sky? There'll be war, there'll be peace, But everything one day will cease, All the iron turned to rust, All the proud men turned to dust, And so all things time will mend, So this song will end.
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I would tell your generation, wherever you are on the totem poll - whether you're halfway there or at the bottom, don't despise small beginnings; small beginnings get you ready for great things.
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All of my early images were really visual experiments to me. They were attempts to answer unasked questions like, what happens if you put images of six men and six women together, or if we combined a monkey's image with a human, would the result approximate an image of early man?
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The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.
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When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
