The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak.
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.
Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public.
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
To fulfill the promise of economic opportunity, we must remain true to the principle that collective bargaining is a cornerstone of a free society and indispensable to a strong middle class.
A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.
Because I'm pushing my body so hard already, the last thing I want to do is have music that's really too strong, in my head.
You have to be really strong in the music industry, and I'm naturally very timid. That was really hard for me. You have to be tough. You have to make decisions and be a businesswoman.
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant.
Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Hal Holbrook was in one of my first television movies when I was about 18 or 19. He'd made such a strong impression on me and a lasting one in terms of what being an actor was.
When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.
If the character is really well-rounded, and it's a really strong character, and if the writing is just fantastic, that's the thing that will hook me in, certainly.
I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.
A good plot should have a strong middle and a spectacular end. But under no circumstances should it have a beginning.
