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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.
-
If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
-
Deal-making goes on with any job.
-
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
-
When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.
-
The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
-
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.
-
I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.
-
One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.
-
I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.
-
I work hard and support myself.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.
-
It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.
-
The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically, how images can be manipulated and the really extraordinary creative possibilities. For me the essential basis of video is the movement - something that exists at the moment and changes in the next moment.
-
A cheerleader? Do I look like a guy who'd be interested in talking to a cheerleader?
-
A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.
-
We've got to defeat ISIS, and we've got to do everything we can to disrupt their propaganda efforts online.
-
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.
