"Emphasis in China is done aggressively. Sometimes, this is done rudely, but most of the time it's just done routinely. It's just a normal thing in the course of your encounters with Chinese people in every walk of life."

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Howard W. French

#People Quotes #Chinese Quotes #Done Quotes

“When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces...I just know they're about to jab me with something.”
“The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.”
“Black people don't talk about diabetes that much. I never knew anything. I thought everyone had an uncle with a leg cut off!”
“Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.”
“I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.”
“I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.”
“The fundamental act of medical care is assumption of responsibility. Surgery has assumed responsibility for disease which is largely acute, local or traumatic. This is responsibility for the entire range of injuries and wounds, local infections, benign and malignant tumors, as well as a large fraction of those pathologic processes and anomalies which are localized in the organs of the body. The study of surgery is a study of these diseases, the conditions and details of their care.”
“Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.”

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