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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As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.
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Reform is 'the biggest dividend' for China.
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Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of the soul.
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I won't change and my perspective won't change. I want to continue my life the way I live it, and I'm not going to let anything stop me from doing that. It isn't all about acting. There's a lot more to life than Hollywood.
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God is the Creator God, he doesn't want to say, "Okay, creation was very good, but I'm scrapping it." He wants to say, "Creation is so good that I'm going to rescue it."
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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.
