Lu Xun Quotes
When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them you will suit each other very well.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.
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The crew loves working on the show, even though we have to work really hard. There's nobody in the show that's difficult. We really have a great group.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time.
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
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I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.
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As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
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As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood.
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My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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I had an addiction to sugar growing up - major, major, major.
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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
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There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.
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I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me.
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Nothing personal; I just don't have people over.
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The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.
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The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.
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When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them you will suit each other very well.
