Chai Jing Quotes

Half of the days in 2014, I had to confine my daughter to my home like a prisoner because the air quality in Beijing was so poor. One morning, I saw my daughter banging on the window... The day will come when she asks me, 'Why do you keep me here? What is going to hurt me when I go outside?'

Chai Jing

• Home
• Quality
• Air
• Daughter

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• My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Trying
  • You
  • Stop

• To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Life
  • Way
  • Life Goes On

• There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Women
  • Story
  • Daughter

• Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Political
  • Lost
  • Party

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Writing
  • Want

• Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Me
  • Action
  • Sin

• Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Child
  • Wind
  • Ocean

• So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Want
  • Religion
  • Expectations

• I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Know
  • Lucky

• During events like the World Cup and the Olympics, I tend to get really wrapped up in my own experience to stay focused, but it's like a bubble. I don't see much outside my own perspective.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Up
  • World
  • Experience

• These are tough times, and the New Yorkers I have met are facing economic adversity with grace and dignity. They worry about their future, care about their neighbors and hope this storm will pass so they can focus on better days ahead.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Focus

• I love doing kitchen renovations where we're opening up the kitchen and creating open-concept main floors. I think that's one renovation that really changes the way people live in their homes.

  

  Candice Olson
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • True
  • Kind
  • Better

• Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Violence

• Der Beruf folgt so wenig aus der Wissenschaft, dass sie ihn sogar ausschließen kann. Denn die Wissenschaft duldet ihrem Wesen nach keine Lösung von sich.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Die

• Within the horizon of this western myth, love is understood as the artificial restraining of our natural impulses toward unbridled aggression.

  

  Sam Keen

• We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury.

  

  Franz Beckenbauer
  • Country
  • Hand
  • Winter

• My cousin in Louisiana started a small company with a little savings, renovating houses. A single mom, she saved enough to buy a home and provide child care for her son. When the economy went belly up, so did her company. She was forced to sell her home and move in with her parents.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Home
  • Parents
  • Mom

• I have this idyllic love life, but my mind just won't accept that. I would like to bring a new guy home every night. I try to make humor out of that situation.

  

  Jen Kirkman
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Home

• The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

  

  Eric Hoffer

• The whole subject-matter of exact science consists of pointer readings and similar indications.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Science

• Half of the days in 2014, I had to confine my daughter to my home like a prisoner because the air quality in Beijing was so poor. One morning, I saw my daughter banging on the window... The day will come when she asks me, 'Why do you keep me here? What is going to hurt me when I go outside?'

  

  Chai Jing
  • Home
  • Quality
  • Air