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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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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One of the things I love so much about Valerie [Belin] is that she inhabits her body so completely. She has no self-consciousness about having stretch marks or having given birth. It's just so amazing that she has nothing to hide. Whereas all these other women see every little - supposed - imperfection - anything irregular is seen as an imperfection.
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My father and his brothers and sisters were childhood Irish jig champions in the Bronx. At our family celebrations, they all get out and do the jig. And of course, the younger generation, me and my cousins and my brothers, we have our own Americanized renditions of the Irish jig, which is a bit more like 'Lord of the Dance.'
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The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet.
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I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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Asians ... put more emphasis on order, stability, hierarchy, family and self-discipline than Westerners do.
