Han Suyin Quotes
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
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I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
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In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
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I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
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It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.
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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
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Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.
