Ma Jian Quotes

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

Ma Jian

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: August 18, 1953

Topics

StrengthHopeGovernmentIdeasFree

There is no picturesque version of what self-care looks like; it's different for every person who wants to practice it.

Jenna Wortham

PracticeLooksPersonDifferentLike

Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised.

Ameen Rihani

CharacterLittle ThingsSelfPose

I am trying to be a girl who is real and has an opinion. Might say stupid things but not scared of men, and for me that's important.

Sonam Kapoor

GirlMenI AmMeStupidOpinion

I want to be careful when I'm breaking down matches because I don't want to offend anybody or knock anybody's work. It took me a long time to get where I was at, so I know how it feels when someone knocks on you.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

WorkTimeMeSomeoneLongYou

Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.

Chauncey Wright

LifeNatureHabitStoneNeverMove

Sometimes, I am also identified as a civil rights leader or a human rights activist. I would also like to be thought of as a complex, three-dimensional, flesh-and-blood human being with a rich storehouse of experiences, much like everyone else, yet unique in my own way, much like everyone else.

Coretta Scott King

LeaderI AmRichThoughtUniqueWay

I'm going to have to call up Spike Lee. I did a cameo for him in 'Malcolm X,' and I'm trying to get him to do my life story and the history of the Black Panther Party.

Bobby Seale

LifeHistoryStoryBlackMy LifeUp

I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.

Philip Green

TimeShortBackDifficultOnlyLike

When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.

Pete Best

BusinessServiceBackYearsPlanned

My parents were divorced when I was really young.

Thomas Gibson

ParentsYoungDivorcedReallyWere

I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama.

Timothy Noah

GovernmentThinkPricePresident

Someone told me a woman bought a dog so she could take it to the same park where I go running, but I'm hoping that's rubbish.

Richard C. Armitage

DogWomanMeSomeoneGoShe

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