Lin Yutang Quotes
On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner.
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Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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I think that all research scientists think of themselves as belonging to a grand tradition, building on work that has been worked on since the very beginning of science itself. Whereas I'm not sure writers think of themselves in the same way.
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You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
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I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do.
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'White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies.
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Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.
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The question I ask myself when adapting a book is how do I be true to the spirit and soul of the character? How would I describe this character in my medium? If you asked one person to do a painting of something and another to create a sculpture of it, you'll never ask, 'Why doesn't the painting look like the sculpture?'
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Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.
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The U.S. has been in control of the domain names of the Internet since its inception. If we relinquish this control, it goes possibly to the U.N.
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.
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Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.
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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Ever present, potent, vigilant, in the breast of man, there is that which never became a party in his guilt, never consented to a wrong deed, nor performed one, but holds itself above all sin, impeccable, immaculate, immutable, the deity of the heart, the conscience of the soul, the oracle and interpreter, the judge and executor of the divine law.
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I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.
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The simple life on the farm was everything to me. Nothing was more relaxing after a long plane flight than to reach the winding driveway that led up to my house. The quiet of the night was more soothing than a sleeping pill.
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I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
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Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.
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Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.
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On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner.
