#ode

I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China. ↗

— Jung Chang

#been #between #china #chinese #constant

There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype. ↗

— Joan Chen

#different #different kind #doing #down #explodes

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources. ↗

— Yvon Chouinard

#accepted #believe #blame #capitalism #change

In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#brain #energy #even #i #meaningful

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes. ↗

— Julian Clary

#being #come #personality #quite #rodents

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone. ↗

— Powell Clayton

#birth #born #conservative #gone #idea

I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#communicate #difficult #easy #i #i can

I don't personally feel a responsibility to be a role model, but as the actor, I do. ↗

— Chris Colfer

#feel #i #i do #model #personally

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#enormous #fools #i #important #maintained

The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people. ↗

— Matthew Continetti

#economic security #economy #ensuring #global #global economy