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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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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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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If we understand our own times, we will know that we should affirm the reality of God by challenging the domination of materialism and naturalism in the world of the mind. With the assistance of many friends I have developed a strategy for doing this. … We call our strategy the 'wedge.'
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Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.
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The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.
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I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak.
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My children teach me to slow down and enjoy life.
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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.
