"The name Bei Dao was actually given to me with the help of friends. When we were publishing our unofficial magazine, Today, we wanted to avoid being harassed by the police so we were trying to think of names that we could use. It was done very casually."

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Source : Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

Bei Dao

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“Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.”

Source : "Landry takes on fellow incumbent" by Adam Snider, www.politico.com. May 14, 2012.
“I think that once you're able to sort of get in line with who and how you relate to the world, you'll become closer to this index that I'm referring to. Because what you want is this card that relates to that book. What you want is this human that relates to this world, rather than having this art school society scattering that point of view somewhere in between. It becomes diffused. And that level of clarity, I think, was gained at the Studio Museum in Harlem.”
“Yeah, I'm cocky and I am arrogant. But that doesn't mean I'm not a nice person.”
“You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.”
“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”
“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.”
“The spring sea rising and falling, rising and falling all day.”

Source : Yosa Buson, “The Spring Sea Rising”
“I just like to win basketball games. That's what motivates me.”

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