Taiwan has been so well developed economically. But we are underdeveloped culturally.
Barry Lam
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When I started, black people were either victims or they were the perpetrators; they were the boogie men who jumped out of the bushes and did terrible things to you.
Joe Morton
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I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure I'm balancing time between my career and my personal life.
Jill Wagner
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
John Dryden
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Those of us who have yet to find philanthropy may find there is a far greater reward from it than from wealth creation.
John Caudwell
WealthRewardFindCreationMayUs
For the past 25 years as an adoption attorney, I have witnessed the extraordinary courage and compassion of women - from age 14 to 40 - facing unplanned pregnancy. Not once did I believe that the government should interfere with their personal and private decision.
Ann McLane Kuster
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To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.
Johnathon Schaech
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It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to... ride and don't let go and you will be fine.
Tori Amos
JourneyRideLearnYouGoWill
'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.
Rob Sheffield
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I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.
Lisa Marie Presley
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I believe in the potential of all things possibly imagined that can be made into a reality. My uncle was a Swedish scientist, and in the 1970s, he would speak of computers controlling most things in the future and self-driving cars and wireless communication. All the things that we are living with now.
Dean Haglund
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Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.
David Walliams
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It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.
Richard Hofstadter
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