Chris Patten Quotes
Asians ... put more emphasis on order, stability, hierarchy, family and self-discipline than Westerners do.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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My birthday is a day when all I want is to bask in the love of my family and rarely accept offers for concerts and shows if they are to be held on this day.
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I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.
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There are different people who got me into music, but what I liked about Beethoven is that even when I didn't understand it or it was too long, there's still something about it that drove me to it. Then it got me excited about actually learning music, like a theory of it.
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If I see a spider in the flat, I try to get a cup and a piece of paper and throw it out of the window. I can't kill them because they're good for catching flies.
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Asians ... put more emphasis on order, stability, hierarchy, family and self-discipline than Westerners do.
