“ When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters — one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters-one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. ”
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy- Copy
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“ Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead. ”
- Henry Rollins- Copy
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“ I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. ”
- John Cleese- Copy
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“ The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
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“ Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage. ”
- Cicely Tyson- Copy
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“ The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges. ”
- Salman Rushdie- Copy
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“ Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character of another. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ It really isn't anybody's business how many people we have working for us. What's offensive is that I'm portrayed as this prima donna with these sycophants telling me how great I am all the time. Yes, they do work for me, but we're working together for a higher good. ”
- Demi Moore- Copy
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“ I'm glad to see that women have an important role within the industry. My no. 1 complaint would still be that most women are very submissive and victims. I would like to see women portrayed in a much stronger and intelligent capacity. ”
- Rita Mero- Copy
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“ I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. 'Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?'. ”
- Martha Plimpton- Copy
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“ Do I look like a masochist or the sort who'd go through physical or verbal abuse? A year after my accident… when I fell of the stairs, I'm still being asked if I was physically abused. It saddens me that I'm being portrayed as this battered woman. ”
- Aishwarya Rai- Copy
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“ My thing is that anybody's interesting if you go into the complexities. That's my problem with the whore. We've seen the whore, obviously, two-dimensionally, one-dimensionally. But if we're truly going to portray a whore in a complicated light, then I'm interested. ”
- Lili Taylor- Copy
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“ Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Whether the type of old sea captain that I have portrayed in my stories is gone forever, is a question. Certainly each summer I find that the ranks have perceptibly thinned. The longshore captain is still there, many of the men who are not any older than myself, but their viewpoint is not that of a man who sailed his square rigged ship out one morning with China as his destination. ”
- Joseph C. Lincoln- Copy
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“ White… is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black… God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ There's always a part of me that's migrating. That's so much part of my attempt to portray all these different men. The sense of being displaced from my home, homeland and language is a very real part of my working life. ”
- Ben Kingsley- Copy
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“ It's very difficult to be objective about one's childhood because you have no perspective on it. I have nothing to compare it with. The only way I can lead any kind of a comparative life is to portray other men. ”
- Ben Kingsley- Copy
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“ Most of my characters are romantic rather than sexual. I think that's an essential difference in my pictures. I think they are more accurate in portraying young people as romantic - as wanting a relationship, an understanding with a member of the opposite sex more than just physical sex. ”
- John Hughes- Copy
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