Hu Shih Quotes

It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.

Hu Shih

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: December 17, 1891 - February 24, 1962

Topics

ValueComparisonContactClearly

It's important to have the right agent - people that are working hard for you. But an actor needs to be in control of their career no matter how good the representation is.

Joel McHale

GoodPeopleControlYouCareer

I take people the way they are. You could work all your life to change them, and they never will. What's the point? They need to be who they are.

Melania Trump

LifeWorkChangePeopleYouWay

Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay.

John Schlesinger

LifePositiveThinkYouLookGay

In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.

Steve Carell

WorkDreamsThoughtNeverWell

John was great to work with, and a lot of fun. I wish I'd had the chance to make more music with him, of course, and to get to know him better.

Tony Levin

WorkMusicGreatFunChanceBetter

I was fascinated by my own prom pictures.

Mary Ellen Mark

PicturesMy OwnOwnPromFascinated

That's wonderful. And what did you do with the money?

Miriam Hopkins

MoneyYouWonderfulDid

I don't like individual awards because this is a team sport, and the coaches try to promote the collective.

Julen Lopetegui

TeamTryAwardsIndividualBecause

Make acting seem real and as if it weren't acting. Just make it real.

Joseph Mazzello

ActingRealSeemMakeJustWere

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

Democritus

HopeBeginningLossGainIll

I've always been a dog owner, from the time I was a little boy in Chicago.

David Seltzer

DogTimeChicagoBoyAlwaysLittle

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

Bruce Nauman

ArtI AmBecomeConcernedSupposed

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