Lu Xun Quotes
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I'm not a Republican.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
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I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
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I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.
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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.
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In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace.
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Eric Schmidt from Google is one of my favorite mentors. And Eric would always say this very humbling thing that's really true, which is, he would say, 'Good executives confuse themselves when they convince themselves that they actually do things.'
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The so-called 'peace' is an interval between wars.
