Anchee Min Quotes

The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.

Anchee Min

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: January 14, 1957

Topics

ChildMeSelfAmericaBornStrange

I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.

Robert M. Gates

CommunityFreedomServiceFreeKind

The burden of citizenship is accepting that what is neither your fault nor your responsibility may be your problem.

Anand Giridharadas

ResponsibilityProblemCitizenship

Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House, with no responsibility but incredible authority is one of the reasons we're now in so much trouble.

Stuart Symington

PowerResponsibilityPeopleGiving

There is no Baltic identity with a common culture, language group, religious tradition.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

CultureIdentityLanguageTradition

Then I tried out for the Fontana High School drum line, in Riverside, and I did really well. I got second chair, and played snare in that drum line for three years.

Travis Barker

SchoolHigh SchoolChairThreeHigh

A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.

Roger Moore

ReadingChristianYearWillBirth

I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make one up! Now it seems over half the stories in my show are made up. The funny thing is, those seem to be the ones that resonate the most with the audiences.

Ronny Cox

FunnyGoodTimeSongStoryLong

You have to be young to be able to do things like that. Now I'm more cautious. I'm proud that I was able to do what I did - psychologically it was a great wall to climb - but sometimes I regret it.

Mathias Rust

GreatClimbRegretProudYouWall

Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.

Mitch Daniels

HealthLightSchoolInsuranceWrong

'Jaws' freed me to discover that a successful movie didn't make a damn bit of difference to my life.

Lorraine Gary

LifeMeMy LifeDamnDifference

Torture goes against the very soul of our country. We are a democracy, established on the rule of law.

Dianne Feinstein

SoulLawDemocracyCountryAgainst

I think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation - and surrounding all that with a little bit of a rock vibe and energy - is the kind of music I make.

Dierks Bentley

MusicGreatEnergyThinkCountry

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