"As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little Match Girl'in the Hans Christian Andersen story. When I was in the boarding nursery and did not want to finish my food, the teacher would say:'Think of all the starving children in the capitalist world!"

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Source : Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

Jung Chang

#Girl Quotes #Christian Quotes #Teacher Quotes

“Whoa, I've really got to stop making plans with fictional characters. It can't be healthy to develop relationships with people who don't exist.”
“I still haven't gotten over this thing of walking down the street and somebody recognizing you because you've been in a movie. There's this illusion that movie stars only exist in the movies. And to see one live is like seeing a leopard let out of the zoo.”
“But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.”
“As for me, I believe that if there's a God - and I am as neutral on the subject as is possible - then the most basic proof of His existence is black humor. What else explains it, that odd, reliable comfort that billows up at the worst moments, like a beautiful sunset woven out of the smoke over a bombed city.”
“Where's my syllabus to guide me through life?”

Source : Megan McCafferty (2007). “Fourth Comings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.176, Broadway Books
“Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.”
“Democracy is made up of three elements. One is whether the laws support pluralistic principles. The second is whether the people take advantage of these laws. The third element is whether the peoples' wallets are thick enough to benefit from this democracy.”

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