Kyan Douglas Quotes
No nose hair. Ever. You'd be surprised at all the little twigs sticking out. I just can't get it. How can you see that and not just want to hack it off?
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I think all politicians lie.
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
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I understood from an early age what being competitive means.
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You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.
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I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'
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I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.
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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'
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Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.
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I don't remember my first race, but I do recall various school sports days where I became way too competitive. We were seven or eight years old, and I had a very stern conversation with my relay team-mates about how crucial it was for us to win.
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The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
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I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
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When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went to Terman Junior High in Palo Alto. It was terrible, because my hormones were all over the place, and I became an ugly adolescent full of rage and loathing.
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Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building. It can survive any environment, in theory.
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I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.
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When you work on your own life, you are less likely to hyper focus on the imperfections of your husband.
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When I was a teenager, I was really into hair; I dyed it different colours and had loads of haircuts. I shaved my head when I was 17 - it was pretty radical!
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No nose hair. Ever. You'd be surprised at all the little twigs sticking out. I just can't get it. How can you see that and not just want to hack it off?
