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Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

If you do what is right, you will never have to explain it.

I'm the glue that keeps it all together. I'm the nucleus of an entertainment family. My day-to-day is making decisions to keep life above water.

Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.

I'm very grateful to Jennifer Lopez, because I have something to talk about for the last couple of years.

In college, my friend Melanie and I used to have weekly Jimmy Stewart viewings, and 'Harvey' seemed to make its way into the rotation an inordinate amount of times.

Here's the thing: I fell impossibly in love with the Internet from the minute I saw it in action in the early 1990s. From that moment on, I have studied it, analyzed it, reported on it, and, mostly, have not been without it as a part of my daily life since.

I was named after the great emperor Cyrus as my father, Farokh Broacha, was a great admirer of the Persian emperor. Continuing the tradition, I have named my son after Mikhail Gorbachev, someone whom I admire. He gave his people freedom.

It is better to explore a gainful uncertainty than to sit in a painful certainty.

The best teacher teaches by inspiring students to learn by showing them the ultimate purpose of learning.

I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.

Crying is really bad for your vocal cords.

As valedictorians matured from high school they began to change their views of success from stereotypical ideals such as material wealth or emulating their parents’ lifestyle to an idea created on their own. They now sought balance between money, career and family as opposed to, say, only wealth. Academically and careerwise most of them were traditionally successful.

This is my life. I don't need a piece of paper to make it a family unit.

Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.

I feel like I'm really blessed and lucky that I have a very good social life outside of the gym, and I have a really amazing family. My parents are so supportive. I have a younger brother and two younger sisters, and they're really awesome. So I feel like I get the best of both worlds.

It sounds like a brag but I've got a separate room in my flat just for unread books; I don't let my read books touch my unread books.