Ha-Joon Chang Quotes
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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If immigration reform passes, it'll be a big victory for sanity - nobody really believes it's healthy for a country to have millions and millions of undocumented noncitizens living in the shadows. But it'll also be a sign that the Republican Party has gotten tired of letting the Tea Party push it around.
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I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again.
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My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.
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I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.
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Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.
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I like a woman who takes care of herself – it says something about the way she'll care for me.
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Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.
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When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
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I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live.
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I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.
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Everything you need to get that relaxed driving that brings consistency only comes with practice.
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Surround yourself with the kinds of input that are uplifting, that expand your mind and settle your spirit.
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Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.
