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China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities.

I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

At the end of the day, they're happy if you do the obvious songs towards the end of the set and you've got to try and make yourself happy by doing certain songs at the front end of the set.

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.

I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she was in a very relaxed, understanding environment. I was very sympathetic towards her.

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it.

In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

We said we would leave no stone unturned to get to Germany and now we are applying the same philosophy towards our tournament preparations.

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

I don't bear any bitterness towards anyone.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.

They dashed on towards that thin red line tipped with steel.

We feel an enormous sense of gratitude towards the American people.

Slovenia wishes that Montenegro will continue successfully its way towards European integration and will reach peaceful co-habitation with other former Yugoslav peoples within a united Europe.

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.

I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work.