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Mao Zedong Quotes

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Mao Zedong

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: leader
Nationality: chinese
Birth: December 26, 1893 - September 9, 1976

Topics

Sky Small Think View Top Frog

Every time I've ever gotten close to being successful, I've found some way to screw it up.

Joe R. Lansdale

Time Way Up Successful Being Found

From the first time I did a movie, people have said, 'Oh, it's all going to change now.' And it would change, but very incrementally. I think I prefer that to some big explosion of fame all of the sudden.

John C. Reilly

Change Time People Think Fame Said

The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't have easy access to official documents, who aren't able to buttonhole people in power.

Andrew Marr

Business Power People Easy Important

To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.

Robert Purvis

Education Men Lie Me Believe Hearts

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.

John T. Flynn

Political Doing Praise Economic He

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Martin Scorsese

Cinema Movies Matter Frame Out

You ever see a bar with 200 beautiful women go broke? But I've seen a lot of bars with great DJs go broke.

Jon Taffer

Women Beautiful Great You Go See

I'm praying for 'Ice Age' 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Because I really think we can run those characters into the '60s, and I'm talking the 1960s, you know? The Civil Rights Movement. That's what I'm praying for, because then I wouldn't have to do anything else.

Denis Leary

Age Think Talking Ice You Run

I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.

Bryan Adams

Music Beginning Me Pride Doing Know

The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure.

Anthony Bourdain

Cooking People Doing You Never Pure

As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.

Priscilla Presley

Life Great Humor Quality Caring

I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury, we had fire pits in the floor for heating, and rats everywhere, because they nested in the hay insulation.

Mark Helprin

Fire War House Civil War Floor Hay