Yang Lan Quotes
In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.
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Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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Deal-making goes on with any job.
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I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
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We went out for six weeks a year. We first started in Mexico and we did that for so many years that we finally said we've got to explore and start going globally. And then we started going all over the world.
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I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
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When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
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I've had hundreds of requests from journalists all over the world asking me to speak about Leicester, which is astonishing. It's captured the imagination.
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I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.
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One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.
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I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.
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I work hard and support myself.
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Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.
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I certainly wouldn't define myself as a northerner. I'm not even really sure what that means. I've lived in London for 50 years. I wasn't born here, but I have spent most of my life here. So I don't make much of it, to be honest. I'm just myself.
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I didn't pursue acting as a career until I got my first job. I didn't think I could make a living at it. You hear such horror stories about how hard it is to get work as an actor. It is hard, but I decided to roll with it.
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The film Punch - Drunk Love is how you see the world when you're in love. You don't see somebody's psychological baggage necessarily, you see the person walking out of the light.
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A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.
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Valentine's Day is the hardest day of the year for a woman to get out, but everybody who is anybody and single is out that night.
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So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody.
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In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.
