Ha-Joon Chang Quotes
Why do tax havens exist? Because rich countries allow them to. If the U.S. came down on tax havens in the same way they come down on countries that trade with Iran and Cuba, we'd have no tax havens in the world.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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I hate competition.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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I've always maintained that I don't think comedy should be reviewed. I think it's un-reviewable, because it is so subjective.
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The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.
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I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.
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So I've learnt that the world is 4,500 million years old. If you're very religious, then it's not 4,500 million years old, it's 6,000 years old. One of these is not correct.
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Why do tax havens exist? Because rich countries allow them to. If the U.S. came down on tax havens in the same way they come down on countries that trade with Iran and Cuba, we'd have no tax havens in the world.
