Liu Xiaobo Quotes
Resting beneath the mighty Communist regime is a civil society that remains weak. It doesn't have much courage and is not very sophisticated. As a civil society it is still in a nascent stage, and this is why we mus not expect it, in the near term, to produce a political organization that might replace the Communist regime.
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When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.
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I watch a lot of football.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!
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Eartha Mae is very shy. She's scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection. Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it's fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!
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You don't have to show a lot of skin to be beautiful.
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It is a mistake to think of courage as something you show to others. True courage is only something you show to yourself.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed,And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night,I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
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If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner.
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Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me.
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Resting beneath the mighty Communist regime is a civil society that remains weak. It doesn't have much courage and is not very sophisticated. As a civil society it is still in a nascent stage, and this is why we mus not expect it, in the near term, to produce a political organization that might replace the Communist regime.
