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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Here's kind of my motto - if you're not happy at home, you're not happy anywhere else.
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It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.
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We must defend democracy using its own mechanisms, through explaining and exemplifying its merits rather than through the heavy-handed and arbitrary silencing of its critics. This is how we will build a sustainable alternative to the contorted worldview of extremists.
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We have tried to fit man into abstraction, but he does not fit.
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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.
