Yang Lan Quotes
On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.
Quotes to Explore
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic.
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Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking after my children. Indeed, the times that I have with them are the only ones when I feel unconditionally happy.
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I'm not going to play my violin, but with my dwarfism, I'm a bit of a mutant.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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Chris Guest has his own form. It's a way of working that is really intense, and you can commit a lot, and you focus a lot. You get to bring a lot. You get to bring things maybe you haven't seen before. You're asked to care a great deal for these people who you're playing and create heart and empathy.
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On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.
