Liu Xiaobo Quotes
China after Olympics will progress very slowly. But the demands for freedom - on the part of ordinary people but also party members - won't be as easy to contain.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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War is over if you want it.
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I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
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For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.
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In junior high school, I learned that I could be good at school. I remember liking the freedom to choose classes and the pleasure of learning and doing well. My perseverance and love of reading had somehow allowed me to overcome many disadvantages of dyslexia, and I read a lot of books for pleasure.
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Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records!
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China after Olympics will progress very slowly. But the demands for freedom - on the part of ordinary people but also party members - won't be as easy to contain.
