Lu Guanqiu Quotes
North Korea is like China was 30-plus years ago. Through our contact, we are certain they will become more open and more liberated.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even.
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
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I feel like the phone was in my way. So I got rid of the phone to focus.
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With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
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I went to Howard University and majored in Film Production and minored in Acting. I turned down an opportunity to go pro in Track & Field to do this - I took a chance with this.
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
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I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
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Another car is not going to help me out, a nicer car, I've already got it. A bigger house ain't gonna do anything for me, and you know, a yacht, it's not going to do anything for me anymore. So how can I find happiness?
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I write what I write.
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There's something grounded about 'Ugly Americans,' so I think it's good that I'm playing a version of myself in these elevated cartoon circumstances.
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My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor on your chest if you had a cough and did funny things to you if you had tuberculosis - all these things that really made very little difference once proper treatments were brought in.
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I actually don't want a throne at all, because I don't view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.
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I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.
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Give me a title and we'll start from there.
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Perhaps by this time the 14th century was not quite sane. If enlightened self-interest is the criterion of sanity, in the verdict of Michelet, 'no epoch was more naturally mad.'
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All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.
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All I'm doing is putting Brancusi's 'Endless Column' on the ground, instead of in the sky. Most sculpture is priapic with the male organ in the air. In my work, Priapus is down on the floor. The engaged position is to run along the earth.
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Designing bridal is perfect for me, because black is my least favorite color, if you could call it a color.
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I love Denmark. But it is a very safe place, and it is easy to let the state look after everything for you.
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Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.
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North Korea is like China was 30-plus years ago. Through our contact, we are certain they will become more open and more liberated.
