Ma Jian Quotes

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

Ma Jian

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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During the summer of 1963 between my junior and senior years, I began a research project on hypothermia in the Department of Surgery with Sidney Wolfson. I quickly became fascinated by the project and continued working on it throughout my senior year.

Stanley B. Prusiner

ResearchYearSummerProjectSenior

The most important consideration I have is I want my legislative shop to have a functional office suite that is conducive to getting their work accomplished.

Steve Womack

WorkImportantWantOfficeMost

Today, the world is so awash in sugar - it is such a staple of the modern diet, associated with all that is cheap and unhealthy - that it's hard to believe things were once exactly the opposite. The West Indies were colonized in a world where sugar was seen as a scarce, luxurious, and profoundly health-giving substance.

Tom Reiss

TodayWorldBelieveDietSugarHard

In retrospect, the political and cultural climate in the early '60s seems both a time of innocence and also like a sultry, still summer day in the Midwest: an unsettling calm before a ferocious storm over Vietnam, which was not yet an American war.

Tom Brokaw

TimeDayStormWarCalmPolitical

Wisconsin is very proud of the career and technical college system that we have back home.

Ron Kind

HomeCollegeProudBackCareerVery

The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.

Mary Karr

ConnectionEmotionalMemoirSome

I had discipline in other areas but certainly not in athletics.

Lucas Till

DisciplineAthleticsOtherHad

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

Bob Dylan

MusicPeopleFatFolk MusicFolk

It's very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it's very nice.

Aurora

PeopleSomeoneNiceCourseMany

No one can escape life's pain. That's life.

Pierce Brosnan

LifePainEscape

There's a little pond near my house, and I see two swans there all the time who are obviously in love. But they look like the same bird, so I don't know if they're male or female, but they're definitely in love.

Noel Fielding

LoveTimeBirdLookHouseKnow

Nobody could dissapear to their trailer once it was up and running, you were all there on the same stage. It was 10 days of rehearsal and 10 days of shooting, which was very tiring.

Julian Sands

YouNobodySameStageShootingDays

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