Liu Wen Quotes

I used to see Estee Lauder's ads everywhere in the subways of Beijing, and I thought how wonderful it would be if the model on them was myself!

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• The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Risk
  • Liberty

• I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Democracy
  • Now
  • Imperialism

• In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Career
  • Control

• Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Love
  • Theater
  • Started

• Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Fall
  • Intellectual
  • Continue

• For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Long
  • Success
  • Myself

• I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Famous
  • Two

• I'm not a Facebook girl. Even though there is a fake Facebook with my name, it's not me. I'm not on Twitter; it's not me.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Name
  • Fake

• That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Life
  • Younger

• If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • God
  • Me
  • Looks

• The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Always
  • Serious
  • Data

• My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.

  

  Carl Weathers
  • Love
  • Acting
  • Kid

• I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Independence

• My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Breakfast
  • Weekend
  • Favorite

• There should be no censorship of mail.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Should
  • Censorship
  • Mail

• I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Face
  • Radio
  • Complaining

• Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only ones fitted for survival in the nuclear age. The cockroach, a venerable and hardy species, will take over the habitats of the foolish humans, and compete only with other insects or bacteria.

  

  H. Bentley Glass
  • Men
  • Age
  • Science

• Bullies may land a punch. They might leave a mark. But they have never, not once, in the history of our United States, managed to match the strength and spirit of a people united in defense of their future.

  

  Joe Kennedy III
  • People
  • May
  • History

• The growth model China has relied on for the last 30 years - one predicated on low-cost exports to the rest of the world and investment in resource intensive heavy manufacturing - is unlikely to serve it well in the next 30 years.

  

  Gary Locke
  • World
  • Rest
  • Growth

• I think in a lot of network television, everyone's vaguely Protestant and doesn't really go to church so they can be 'relatable.'

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Think
  • Church
  • Television

• Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • America
  • Community
  • Destiny

• I used to see Estee Lauder's ads everywhere in the subways of Beijing, and I thought how wonderful it would be if the model on them was myself!

  

  Liu Wen
  • Model