Han Suyin Quotes
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.
Gail Devers -
The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
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In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.
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I never lie to my fans.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
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I think that many central banks and financial authorities understand that any long term attempt to compete through an artificial depreciation of their currency will not be very effective in the long term.
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I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it.
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Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.
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The war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to allow various intelligence operations to wring the last few hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit profits from the global drug scam; then defeat will have to be declared. "Defeat" will mean, as it did in the case of the Vietnam War, that the media will correctly portray the true dimensions of the situation and the real players, and that public revulsion at the culpability, stupidity and venality of the Establishment's role will force a policy review.
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It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.
