Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's an assumption that modernity is a product simply of competition, markets and technology. It is not. It is also shaped equally by history and culture. China is not like the West, and it will not become like the West.
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10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS I'm not an Emontional, but how??? I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has... DEYTH BANGER I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... HARRY STYLES You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive... DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT As a movement (rather than a preference), the goal of antinatalism is that no humans should have chi... QUENTIN S. CRISP When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... DEYTH BANGER Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st... NEHA KOTHARI It is a truism, easily forgotten, that the West, in its modern phase, has not stood still. Also easi... PAUL A. COHEN You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,... LAURIE FRANKEL Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly. GINA GREENLEE The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY I saw that there is no Nature, That Nature doesn’t exist, That there are hills, valleys,... ALBERTO CAEIRO There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him. CASSANDRA CLARE I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read. ALBERTO CAEIRO Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... CRAIG GROESCHEL The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is i... YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND See the world for what it is. BEAUTIFUL! ANTHONY T. HINCKS I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are. MONIKA ZANDS We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa... ERIK GRIFFIN We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian... AI WEIWEI Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the... BILL NIGHY Things don’t have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning ... ALBERTO CAEIRO it's always important to do what you want, Life is too short to live with Regrets. SHELLI THOMPSON Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one. NOW IS GOOD 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani... DAVE GROHL Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine w... TOMMY DOUGLAS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Wrong? So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ... DEYTH BANGER Technology has become the West’s main prop to its claims of inherent superiority over the non-West... PETER A. LORGE Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with Chi... HU JINTAO It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made... CALVIN JOHNSON I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doin... JAMES DURBIN If I knew I was going to die tomorrow, And Spring came the day after tomorrow, I would die... ALBERTO CAEIRO The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is... DREW BREES Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field There passes for a moment the fig... ALBERTO CAEIRO It’s an already inside outside, The philosophers say it’s the soul But it’s not the ... ALBERTO CAEIRO Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence me... ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As... KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be... RENEE JAMES When I was younger, I wanted to be a cop. Then I watched 'The Wild Wild West,' and so I want... WOODY HARRELSON Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. More important, it's because God is our only true source of life. CRAIG GROESCHEL The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset. But what does someone who hates and love... ALBERTO CAEIRO This is not the beginning of American civilization where we need guns because it's the Wild, Wil... RICK PITINO Why things are not easy?
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'Cause life is not. MAYANK KUMAR LOUTERIYA You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the... BERNARD LAGAT Especially in the West, people want to understand Asia on a deeper level because it's become the... KEVIN KWAN If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER A lot of people say there's a fine line between genius and insanity. I don't think there's a fine li... BILL BAILEY I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want... CASSANDRA CLARE The Queen gave him a look: special and secretive and shared between the two of them.You warned he... CASSANDRA CLARE My alignment is with what I perceive as just and fair. If it's with the Muslims, then I'm wi... HAMZA YUSUF If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best. ROBERT SIAHAAN For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA What comes, when it comes, will be what it is. ALBERTO CAEIRO Night doesn’t fall for my eyes But my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes. Be... ALBERTO CAEIRO I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they... ALBERTO CAEIRO I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by ac... ROBERT REDFORD A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH To me, skin is alien and kind of weird; it weirds me out. It's strange, but it's also really... FLUME ...definitely believe that, there's got to be a spark to a place...to make it feel like a home... ISABELLA KOLDRAS, POEM MY HOME. I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it ... STANLEY HAUERWAS Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something... JIM HIGHTOWER His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here. BRIAN MULRONEY It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'Th... AARON SORKIN In a compass, we got north, south, east and west, right? But in between that, you got things like no... BJ THE CHICAGO KID Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical id... HELMUT JAHN I was born subject like others to errors and defects, But never to the error of wanting to unde... ALBERTO CAEIRO Accept the universe As the gods gave it to you. If the gods wanted to give you something e... ALBERTO CAEIRO I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worr... RYAN SHECKLER The best part of having a relationship is getting to call the person or lay down next to them and te... TEGAN QUIN If you can't do it today, You can not do it in your whole life! Do it NOW! KAMAL KHANZADA There's an assumption that my audience is all these bearded twats from Dalston. But actually, qu... STEWART LEE Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, be... CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON I live in a neighborhood where there's a lot of West Indian culture, so it's nice. EVE I'm from West Virginia. If you didn't know what was happening in NASCAR, you were on the out... RANDY MOSS The man held himself still and turned his milk-flooded eyes on her. Fin felt something like vertigo ... A.S. PETERSON 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec... GEORGE P. ELLIOTT A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns... SAM TRAMMELL Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it s... AI WEIWEI What tends to happen when people talk about Chinese sci-fi in the West is that there's a lot of ... KEN LIU
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And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, ... JACQUES PEPIN But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a gener... JACQUES LACAN Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful. JACQUES AUDIARD When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax. JACQUES PEPIN It's sad that you don't see drivers being real people. JACQUES VILLENEUVE All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have f... JACQUES LIPCHITZ What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature,... JACQUES COUSTEAU And now, the end is near, And so I face the final curtain. My friend, I'll say it clear, JACQUES REVAUX (Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereo... JACQUES ELLUL The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical... JACQUES ELLUL The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judg... JACQUES VERGES Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people w... JACQUES LACAN My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist... JACQUES DELORS I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles. BRIAN JACQUES I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe. JACQUES DERRIDA It's the first time I've seen any of my work done like this, BRIAN JACQUES I suppose there's a child inside me who wants to get out, ... A little baldy child with a beard. Ha! BRIAN JACQUES I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning, ... Who ever thought I'd be a children's author --... BRIAN JACQUES Ah, 'tis a good strong yarn, about the sea, and all the legends that surround it, BRIAN JACQUES I use animals native to Great Britain, ... The animals have human traits, like the mole is a tiny, f... BRIAN JACQUES Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human, ... They know what a 'dirty rat' is. BRIAN JACQUES Any time I go into anything like this, I make sure, before I ever put pen to paper, that I've got th... BRIAN JACQUES Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious ins... JACQUES LACAN Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital d... JACQUES BARZUN The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the do... JACQUES DERRIDA We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their... JACQUES MARITAIN The Christian should participate in social and political efforts in order to have an influence in th... JACQUES ELLUL