China Machado Quotes
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
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From every human being there rises a light.
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The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.
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I've always heard that the reason you fall is to get back up and keep going. So when that happens, or life throws you bad breaks or curves or deals you the wrong hand, all I've ever known is to keep going.
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I'm a travel enthusiast.
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Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that their words prompted you to write. Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before. Other people’s words are the bridge you use to cross from where you were to wherever you’re going.
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No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it.
