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What does it matter if China’s economy grows when there are no basic protections for its citizens?

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• For me, my number one Hollywood role model is Jennifer Lopez.

  

  Becky G
  • Me
  • Model
  • Hollywood

• They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Physician

• 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.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Believe
  • Children

• As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Always
  • Year
  • Now

• As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Age
  • Lies

• I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Way
  • Me
  • Stories

• I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Best
  • Ever
  • Paranoia

• OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Simple
  • Sweet
  • Values

• But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Writing
  • Culture
  • Food

• I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Mind
  • Interesting
  • Open Mind

• Technology keeps progressing. Young people follow the curve. But as they get older, they get inertia, and they start deviating from that curve.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Technology
  • Start

• Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Big
  • Songwriting
  • Isolation

• Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Boy
  • Blood

• When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • People
  • Become
  • Bewildered

• My only experience with American things is through movies.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Experience
  • American
  • Movies

• I listen to a lot of music, and I listen to some rap, and I do like listening to Biggie Smalls.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Rap

• I wish I'd started having kids sooner so I could have had a few more.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Kids
  • Wish
  • More

• My God, I have almost never believed in you, and yet I have always loved you.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • God

• There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.

  

  Jiang Qing

• I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.

  

  Doug Ose
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• You must remember that our God has all knowledge and all wisdom, and that therefore it is very possible He may guide you into paths wherein He knows great blessings are awaiting you, but which, to the shortsighted human eyes around you, seem sure to result in confusion and loss.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• What does it matter if China’s economy grows when there are no basic protections for its citizens?

  

  Ai Weiwei