"The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought."

-- Tom Lantos

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“Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.”

Source : Elizabeth Janeway (1987). “Improper behavior”, William Morrow
“So now what happens is the cameras follow me around and capture exactly what I've been doing since I was a boy. Only now we have a team of, you know, like 73 of us, and it's gone beyond that.”
“I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude.”
“I pride myself on being courteous to people, and trying to fashion good relations.”
“It's so tiring. Even though I've worn heels and performed the choreography for four years now, I'm still not used to it. When will I be used to it? In 10 years? In 20 years?”
“I think that the whole idea of â€˜no regretsâ€™ was always a silly idea to me, because of course I regret all the places I went wrong, but thatâ€™s what creating anything, and being human, is all about. Of course if I could go back and knew what I know now, I absolutely would do it differently, Iâ€™d do it the right way, but part of being human is that we canâ€™t go back, we can only hope that if we come across that moment again, weâ€™ll do it the right way.”
“Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.”
“When you have the catalog of work, it doesn't feel like you've got one shot to get it right; it's just like, you're making a new document of something at the present time, and it's a living thing, and it changes. It's been cool to help other people make their records, to produce. You get a crash course in things that you don't get as the artist.”

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