Charles K. Kao Quotes
Because of the earlier loss of the two elder siblings, my brother and I lived a very pampered and protected life. Nursemaids kept constant watch. With my parents busy at dinner parties and social events, we only met them as if for a daily royal audience.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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I had a moment where I left journalism, and I started getting interested in this issue and writing about it, where I felt there was a right side and a wrong side around a lot of these issues relating to education.
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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In terms of behaving in a civic way, I feel my behavior is always exemplary.
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I've always loved to write, and I wrote fiction all my life. That's what I thought I was going to do in my life - until I started writing songs.
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The math of durability in McCain's life is extraordinary.
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The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
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Because of the earlier loss of the two elder siblings, my brother and I lived a very pampered and protected life. Nursemaids kept constant watch. With my parents busy at dinner parties and social events, we only met them as if for a daily royal audience.
