Ha-Joon Chang Quotes
Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy, faith, sense of duty, solidarity, loyalty, public-spiritedness, patriotism, and so on - that are sometimes even more important than self-seeking as the driver of our behaviors.Ha-Joon Chang
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
Daniel Bryan -
'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
Yandel Wisin & Yandel -
For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
Fei Fei Sun -
For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
Taylor Swift -
Katie Holmes is really amazing.
Bailee Madison -
News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
Zendaya -
It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
Faith Hill -
I think we respond well when we do something well.
Katey Sagal -
I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
Gary Ross -
Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
Baz Luhrmann
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Everything goes in waves. Evolution goes in waves. The ocean goes in waves. Energy goes in waves. Sound travels in waves.
Edgar Ramirez -
One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
Mallory Ortberg -
It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
J. D. Vance -
Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
Manuel Puig -
I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
Manuel Puig -
I live, to get out of what I live through.
Antonio Porchia
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As an athlete, you have to become quite selfish with your time and your body and your training.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
If I am going to do something outside of Lady Antebellum, it's got to make a statement. Otherwise, why do it?
Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum -
We know the pain the president has caused our society and his family and his friends, but we know, too, how much the president has done for this country.
Charles Ruff -
I'm used to pressure. When writing must get done, I work in bed, on a bus, a train.
Darren Star -
Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy, faith, sense of duty, solidarity, loyalty, public-spiritedness, patriotism, and so on - that are sometimes even more important than self-seeking as the driver of our behaviors.
Ha-Joon Chang