Tibet is a beautiful and richly endowed region of our great motherland.

Tibet is a beautiful and richly endowed region of our great motherland.

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.

We on our part will stick to our independent foreign policy of peace, acting forever as a strong defender of world peace and a persistent proponent of common development.

In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism.

Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.

The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world.

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.

I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.

Whenever you have a tight schedule, you sort of have to film whatever you can that day.

If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest.

Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods.

Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure.

I loved being a test pilot, and so being an astronaut was - was not my end point in, you know, either I achieved success by being an astronaut, or if I don't get picked, I'm not successful. I loved my career as a pilot, and it was a bonus to be selected as an astronaut.

I'm a member of the American Indian Movement, and I'm from the indigenous nations of the Western Hemisphere.

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the "hard" sciences so brilliantly successful.

I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.

Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.

I've always tried to get around writing love songs, I guess because I've always had a hard time saying, 'I love you.'

Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.

I like Australia, but every time I'm there, I feel like everybody's being sarcastic because everyone's so nice.

If your plan is to put a product out there that people can see and understand, then by golly, we're going to get along just fine.

I've had all types of beautiful girls tell me that they ugly when they look in the mirror, as if it's someone else's reflection they see.

I couldn't stand seeing myself on the screen.

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.

Sometimes being an actor is being a song in someone else's mixtape, so I really understand why more and more actors are making films of their own.

If you can't see the rotation and tell if it's a sink - a fastball, then you have to be able to tell whether that fastball is a two-seamer or a four-seamer. You have to be able to recognize if it's a slider or a curveball. You have to be able to recognize if it's a changeup or a split-finger.

I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes.

The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.