Martin Jacques Quotes

The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese state has not been obliged to compete for power with rivals such as the church, the aristocracy or merchants.

Martin Jacques

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It's easy to be cynical about American politics. It's more important not to be.

Andy Dunn

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The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.

John Updike

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I would have rather been beat by a plumber than Kathy Griffin.

Ron White

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The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

Michael Moore

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If I get a guy that can take my shots and withstand my arsenal for the first round or two, I think you're going to see the best of me coming forward.

Luke Rockhold

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I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it.

Jonathan Demme

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I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

Denzel Washington

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A very small proportion of the country's black money is in the movie industry. Because we are written about, public attention is focused on us. Do you think there is no black money in other businesses? With the exception of government servants and others who have tax deducted at source, there are tax evaders in every walk of life.

Dev Anand

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With VR, you are directing in a 360-degree environment. The biggest challenge is that the viewer can look anywhere. They might look at the the weakest moments, the very things you edit for TV. You don't control where they look.

Doug Liman

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The best messages in any given negotiation are really implied indirectly, come to the other person based on thinking that you're getting them to do - getting them to get some really solid thought behind their answers. And so a great thing to send someone in an email is, 'Have you given up on this project?'

Christopher Voss

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There is no lack of profitability or investment among these telecommunications companies. There is nothing that an open-internet order did to them that diminished their success.

Brian Schatz

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I like making movies.

Antoine Fuqua

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