Ha-Joon Chang Quotes
Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them.

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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
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Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
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I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.
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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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I think people should be able to do what they want to do.
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I played football first. I love football. I'm a die-hard Broncos fan. I loved football, but in the offseason, I started playing basketball, and I just fell in love with the game. I've been playing basketball ever since 5th grade.
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Everything is foreseen, yet freedom of choice is granted.
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I like following whatever's right for me at any given time. I could have stayed with Free for 40 years, but it becomes a corporate entity after a while, and once I become locked into it and governed by it and am expected to do a certain thing all of the time, I tend to want to move on.
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Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them.