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Chen Guangcheng Quotes

The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?

Chen Guangcheng

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: chinese
Birth: November 12, 1971

Topics

Home I Am Free Wrong Person Said

It really feels like VR has the possibility to be something really huge.

Something Like VR Possibility Really

I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.

Age Alcohol Friends Now Never Used

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

Anger Empathy Opposite Calmness

When you're a screenwriter working on a film, you're not really even welcome on set, even if you know... When I wrote 'Elizabeth' and Shekhar Kapur was a friend of mine, but I wasn't really welcome on set, because the director is God and it's a very difficult position for a screenwriter who's put so much passion into that, into the writing.

Friend Passion God Welcome Writing

I think breathing is actually the key to a lot of opening up of other parts of yourself that you haven't used, for any job, but particularly in acting.

Sigourney Weaver

Job Yourself Think Key You Acting

Most people believe that their listening skills are where they need to be, even though they aren't. A study at Wright State University surveyed more than 8,000 people from different verticals, and almost all rated themselves as listening as well as or better than their co-workers. We know intuitively that many of them are wrong.

Travis Bradberry

People Listening Believe Better Know

Born on an island, I could swim before I could walk, thrown many times into swimming pools and warm transparent Caribbean waters: sink or swim, that was my first lesson. While I'm not a natural athlete, I'm still a strong swimmer and feel a great affinity with the sea.

Sea Great Walk Swimming Strong Warm

I know people whose entire lives are ruined by fame. If you make yourself exclusive, people want to break that down, but if you go about doing your shopping, no one bugs you.

Yourself People Shopping Doing You

I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

Work Day People Night Week Stage

What formed me as a musician, a songwriter, the sound and personality of my band, a whole lot of that happened well before 1991.

Personality Me Band Sound Well

Melbourne, where I grew up, is one of the street art capitals of the world. Something about discovering freshly painted walls always fills me with optimism; it's autonomous and democratic, and reminds me that maybe people are paying attention after all.

Penelope Mitchell

Art Walls Optimism People Me World

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

Friendship Weakness Help Person Also

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