Mo Yan Quotes

I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.

Mo Yan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: February 17, 1955

Topics

I AmInfluenceWorldPoliticalHuman

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

Jeremy Irons

TrainingNowTheaterAptitude

I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.

Andy Roddick

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I was lucky to have parents who loved me.

Jean Paul Gaultier

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Poetry. I read Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Hirschfield. I like to read Billy Collins out loud.

Amy Tan

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Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

Michelle Malkin

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The president does not have any obligation to make a consensus appointment here. What the president's obligation is, is to pick a judicial conservative, and I believe that's what he's gonna do.

Jay Alan Sekulow

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The long history of conversations that family members share contributes not only to how listeners interpret words but also to how speakers choose them.

Deborah Tannen

FamilyHistoryWordsLongChoose

Once my ears were open to hearing mentions of 'Shark Tank', I was surprised by how many people in our world, even in our industry, tech and finance, loved the show.

Chris Sacca

FinancePeopleWorldLovedShark

Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

Clive Barker

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I get excited about room-service menus! I really do.

Colin Farrell

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I think you have to feel your best by yourself. I do think it's important to have a solid friend that you can turn to, though - one that you can vent to.

Winnie Harlow

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After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was calling in sick in order to work on my novel.

Philipp Meyer

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