Bai Ling Quotes

Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.

Bai Ling

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: October 10, 1970

Topics

CultureQuestionsYouObedienceAsk

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

John Lubbock

PeopleSufferingAnxietyWorryDown

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Soren Kierkegaard

MusicHeartBeautifulPoetryUnhappy

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

Soren Kierkegaard

ManImperfectionDesireHumanOnly

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

GraceMeNecessityCreatedThou

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

Steven Spielberg

TodayHistoryThinkGenerationLearn

I love doing my 'Buried Treasure' show.

Tom Petty

LoveDoingTreasureShowI Love

When I get all focused on songwriting, I get into all the marketing and promotion that we do to make it happen. Then the right song comes along and blows it all out of the water. The right song will do it for you every time.

Ronnie Dunn

TimeWaterMake It HappenSongYou

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

Mary Shelley

MyselfTreeSoulI AmSurviveSoon

I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.

Mickey Rourke

LightFocusRedAnimalCameraI Can

If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the 'survival of the fittest?'

Josiah Strong

SeaCompetitionSurvivalPowerful

The benefit of hindsight is we only really talk about those things that did work out.

Jonathan Ive

WorkTalkOutThingsHindsightOnly

If you're trying to do something wholly new, it's hard to fully trust it. But if you use forms that have come before, it lends your music weight and authority. It's also a way to acknowledge that it's not just you who's feeling these things. The emotions are coming through you from a whole history.

Johnny Flynn

MusicHistoryTrustTryingYouNew

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