Katie Chang Quotes

People probably thought I was scary, but I was just uncomfortable with attention and tended to be a little closed off, except with friends. I learned to embrace the attention.

Katie Chang

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• Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Business
  • Humanity
  • Movies

• Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Women
  • Song
  • Imagination

• If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Words
  • Same

• I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Guy
  • Free
  • College

• In the future, I want to have super-fights.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Future
  • Want

• When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • World
  • Truth
  • Fool

• My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Precedes

• Team members have to hold each other accountable. If there's a meeting, all members have to commit to be present and to help one another; they can't just check out when they feel they're not getting any benefits.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Help
  • Team
  • Present

• In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Different
  • Different People

• Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Like
  • Sense

• When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Talent
  • Kid

• I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Goal
  • Doing
  • Just

• In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Good
  • Help
  • Guy

• We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Women
  • True
  • Slavery

• I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place with that album. I pioneered a number of ideas with that album and subsequent tour. The all-keyboard approach with no guitars was a new one, and I was one of the first to use a drum machine in concert. It was an amazing time.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Amazing

• In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Bad
  • Responsibility
  • Admit

• But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Attention
  • Doing
  • Nails

• The more I study science, the more I believe in God.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Believe
  • Science

• I like bowling. I suck at it, but I like it. You know what's so funny? I have days when I'm absolutely great at doing it, and then I have days when I just don't understand it.

  

  Lil' Kim
  • Great
  • Funny

• We commissioned an independent statutory economic body - the Productivity Commission - to review the possibility of funding a disability scheme. The commission returned with a view that it could. Then it becomes an issue of national will.

  

  Bill Shorten
  • Independent
  • Productivity

• I remember when I first started having these interpretations of these images, these cliches of what movie stars are and this and that, and they're egomaniacal pricks and tyrants, but in general, for the most part, they're nice people to tell you the truth.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Remember
  • Interpretations

• People probably thought I was scary, but I was just uncomfortable with attention and tended to be a little closed off, except with friends. I learned to embrace the attention.

  

  Katie Chang
  • People
  • Friends
  • Attention