Ang Lee Quotes
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.
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Hits and flops are overrated.
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It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
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Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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Rolling Stone: What was your headspace at the time of Superunknown? A lot of the lyrics are dark.
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Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.
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I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. I'll take an angry moose any day.
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Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.
