"My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security."

-- Ang Lee

#Father Quotes #Parent Quotes #Taiwan Quotes

“I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.”

Source : Shirley Jackson (2008). “The Lottery”, p.22, The Creative Company
“Not to be arrogant, but I have a lot of hits, so my phone stay ringing, but it's consistent.”
“It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.”
“In April, 1915, the Ottoman Government began to put into execution throughout Turkey a systematic and carefully-prepared plan to exterminate the Armenian race. In six months nearly a million Armenians have been killed. The number of victims and the manner of their destruction are without parallel in Modern History.”

Source : Herbert Adams Gibbons (1916). “The Blackest Page of Modern History: Events in Armenia in 1915 : The Facts and the Responsibilities”
“This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.”
“Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.”
“Learning to be an effective leader is no different than learning to be an effective person. And that's the hard part”
“The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be this wonderful historical irony. When the people on Mars write a declaration of independence saying, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident...', the US will be rather pissed off”

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