Han Suyin Quotes
No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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I have played cricket on my own terms.
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I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
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I don't like possessions.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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What's great about HBO is they just care about quality. They care about the brand. They're not worried about ratings; obviously they want people to buy subscriptions, but they just want people to be into what's on HBO.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'
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The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. The U.S. should also support other countries, including Ghana, in ECOMOG until stability is established.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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Training is my drug. I'm going to be the best I can in and out of the water - train right, eat right - and that is the way it should be.
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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity's consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
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Conjoined twins are identical siblings who develop one placenta out of a single fertilised ovum. No cases of conjoined triplets or quadruplets have been documented.
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Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!
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I never really thought of my neighborhood in South Philly as being a neighborhood; it was more a state of mind. For people who aren't familiar with those kinds of places, it's a whole different thing. Like, 42nd Street in New York City is a state of mind.
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No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear.
