Liu Xiaobo Quotes

In the course of my life, for more than half a century, June 1989 was the major turning point. Up to that point, I was a member of the first class to enter university when college entrance examinations were reinstated following the Cultural Revolution (Class of '77).

Liu Xiaobo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: December 28, 1955 - July 13, 2017

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From the time I left the Marine Corps after serving as an infantry platoon and company commander in Vietnam, I decided that I would focus on immediate goals that inspired me to devote all of my energy to them, rather than putting together the more cautious and traditional building blocks of a predictable career.

Jim Webb

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I don't believe that when you are 25 you are over the hill. Fifty is the new 30.

Michael Flatley

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I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

Simon Cowell

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Obama is telling the insurance companies, as a dictator would, what they can and can't do or what they must or must not do.

Rush Limbaugh

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I've played the drums for so long, I can't imagine saying goodbye to it.

Miguel Ferrer

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Fortunately, I got called down to NASA for an interview. And one thing led to the next, and one day I got that call. I've been here about seven years now and am really enjoying it.

Michael P. Anderson

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People consider me a striker, but I have trained jiu-jitsu for 10 years.

Mirko Cro Cop

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You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office.

Jason Patric

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To me, cinema is cinema. Cinema is one big tree with many branches. The same as literature. In literature, you don't just say, 'Oh, I bought some literature.' No, you say, 'I bought a novel' by so-and-so, or a book of essays by so-and-so.

Jonas Mekas

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My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.

Dennis Christopher

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I remember once saying in a television interview that the only things I hadn't been in were the opera and the ballet. Two days later, I got a call from Lord Harewood, of the English National Opera, saying "Would you like to be in 'Ariadne auf Naxos?'"

Donald Sinden

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There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.

Bobby Fischer

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