Mao Zedong Quotes
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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I used to be a professional kiteboarder. People were like, 'Oh, my God, are you scared of sharks? Are you scared of injuries?' You can't be scared. If you're scared, then you can't do it. You can't train to be the best.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
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As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
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With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
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I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.
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Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.
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We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
