Edward Albee Quotes
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
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'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
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If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
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People always give me styling products and stuff.
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Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
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Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I'm sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.
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Despite all its bluster about innovation, Apple has become a copycat, and not even a good one.
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That's what fashion is supposed to do to you, it's supposed to make you happy, make you excited, make you feel good.
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The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.
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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
