Ma Jun Quotes

Environmental agencies in China are hamstrung by local officials who put economic growth ahead of environmental protection; even the courts are beholden to local officials, and they are not open to environmental litigation.

Ma Jun

Recitation: by Male by Female

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GrowthEnvironmentalAheadOpenEven

We lived in a ghetto. I could have pretended I was hard or tough and not a square. I wound up not getting in trouble. I don't consider myself to be especially wise, but I will say that it's pretty clear that some people want to get out and some people don't. I wanted out.

Andre Braugher

MyselfWisePeopleToughTrouble

Good music will always be recognized in the end.

Suga

GoodMusicEndWillAlways

I don't fight for my legacy or for the glory or anything like that. The feedback from the fans is nice, don't get me wrong; it's a good feeling having them - you on their side. But I'm motivated by making a good living for my family, and that's what made me get serious about this.

Robbie Lawler

FamilyGoodFightMeLegacyYou

I think there is that very basic yearning for something or someone to be looking after us, for there to be a framework holding the universe together that is benign and intelligent. We're not going to get rid of that; it's just too scary to be that molecule flying around briefly in a vacuum.

Michel Faber

TogetherLookingFlyingThinkScary

You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.

Dick Cheney

GovernmentCareTake CareYouPlay

If the shoe fits, it is probably worn out.

Craig Bruce

ShoeOutWornFits

I am a small-town girl.

Claire McCaskill

GirlI AmSmall-TownAm

I grew up on British fiction, and I write perhaps more directly out of that tradition.

Claire Messud

TraditionMoreWriteOutUpFiction

My whole thing as a performer is to affect people, whether I make you cry or I make you laugh. I would love to make you think.

Bresha Webb

LovePeopleThinkLaughYouCry

I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation.

Bob Costas

OpinionWishAccusationSaidNever

Pneumococcal disease is a real threat. Pneumococcal disease is a bacterial infection that causes anything from middle ear infection to pneumonia to meningitis. Children are particularly vulnerable to it, but adults can get pneumococcal disease themselves.

Anthony Fauci

ChildrenRealAnythingGetMiddle

The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet.

Peter Diamandis

GovernmentFlyComputersInternet

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