Annette Lu quotes

“These two points are lies. UN Resolution 2758 does not say a word about the relationship between Taiwan and China, let alone say that the PRC represents Taiwan”
-- Annette Lu

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“Taiwan and China are related ethnically and close neighbors geographically. There's no reason to resent or to fight against each other.”
-- Annette Lu

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“Taiwan is democratic.”
-- Annette Lu

Source : "Annette Lu: 'They Made Me Famous'". Interview with Don Shapiro, www.cnn.com. April 19, 2000.

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“Taiwan's democracy has grown very fast and we enjoy a certain degree of freedom, as other developed democracies like the United States.”
-- Annette Lu

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“In 2005, I founded the Democratic Pacific Union, an international organization of 28 democratic countries to promote democracy, peace and prosperity in the Pacific region.”
-- Annette Lu

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“Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.”
-- Annette Lu

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“All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.”

“The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.”

“Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.”

“Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...”

Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.

“Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins

“What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.”

“Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.”

“Funny... I still can't believe in God." "Does that matter now?"..."He believes in you.”

“She who means no mischief does it all.”

Source : Aaron Hill, Urania Hill Johnson (1754). “Poems”, p.135

“Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work”