Ha-Joon Chang Quotes
As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.
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Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
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We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
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I'm a huge gamer! I love playing 'World of Warcraft.' It helps me wind down and escape reality for a few.
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All my cousins steal things. They're just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.
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The media of sameness and separation represent the world in its most religious form - the structuring of the social in images.
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Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.
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I love actors, and I'm very protective of them. I trust them. It's a mutual trust.
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.