Cultural Traitors Quotes

#1. Westerners who go native with Chinese ideas are called 'eggs' - outside white, inside yellow -, and are often systematically excluded from their expat community's activities, let alone the financial support system.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#2. It's been a while and God, you're so sexy I can't even breathe." His voice shook to match the rest of him. "If I f#ck this up, I'll get it right, Ror. I promise. Just bear with me, okay?

Cari Quinn

#3. The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly welcomed, and readily salable designs.

Martin Filler

#4. He releases the button on my coat with the snap of his fingers. The traitorous garment flips open, as if to say Help yourself, mister!

Sally Thorne

#5. I hate and fear violence myself, have always avoided barroom brawls, and tho' I'm a bit of a gun-nut, and a member of the NRA, I never shoot at anything but beer cans and mule deer. (In season.) And seldom hit either, except by accident.

Edward Abbey

#6. I try to be kind to people, to treat them with respect. And I'm proud of that.

Lee Ryan

#7. You can verify that in news meetings I sometimes say, 'This is skewed too far to the left,' or 'The mix of stories seems overweeningly appealing to a reader with a certain set of sensibilities, and it shouldn't.'

Jill Abramson

#8. She looked at me for a second and said, "Oh, never mind. I guess it's true what Mom said? That you've led a sheltered life?"
I said I thought the description fairly apt.

Susan Hubbard

#9. The strength and clarity of the picture you envision at the start will tell you when you are done. You are finished when you have said what you wish to say, when nothing added can make it better.

Richard Schmid

#10. Biographies by preachers are of no value. If they admire a man they always make him a saint, while if they dislike one, they always make him a demon.

George C. Lorimer

#11. There is no debate whether we need a cultural policy or not. We do need it, but there are different ways of doing it.

Frederic Martel?

#12. Faith, it is said, is better than belief, because belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Mitch Albom

#13. Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd just use that old piece of software. So there are no repetitive tasks.

Bill Gates

#14. The closest and most precious people in your life are guaranteed to make you feel the entire spectrum of human emotions.

John Wayne Gacy

#15. I've been around a long time. Maybe the people like me.

Humphrey Bogart