Lisa Ling Quotes
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
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To ensure stable and sustainable economic growth, world leaders must re-examine the international rules of the monetary game, with advanced and emerging economies alike adopting more mutually beneficial monetary policies.
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I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.
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'Black Messiah' is a hell of a name for an album. It can easily be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.
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You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.
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It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.
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When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
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Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing in the world.
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Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.
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Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.
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In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.
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I am Valentino Rossi. If I stay in MotoGP it is to try to win. When that is not possible it is time to stay at home and work in the garden!
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My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.
