"Well, as you've said, we cannot expect the people of China not to want to progress, so if you have an opportunity to progress, to develop your economy to a world class economy, it's an aspiration that is natural and that, I welcome."

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Source : "Making Hisssstory: Samuel L. Jackson talks about 'Snakes on a Plane'". Interview with Jeff Jensen, ew.com. August 18, 2006.

S. R. Nathan

#Opportunity Quotes #Class Quotes #People Quotes

“If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.”
“People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.”
“Inactivity is the beginning of all vice.”
“Your liberty to swing your arms ends where my nose begins.”

Source : Stuart Chase (1958). “Guides to straight thinking: with 13 common fallacies”
“Society imposes an identity on you because of the way you look. Your struggle as a self has to do with an identity being imposed on you that you know is not your identity.”

Source : "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.
“Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.”
“I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.”
“Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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