Ha-Joon Chang Quotes
As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.Ha-Joon Chang
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
Zora Neale Hurston -
I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
Taye Diggs -
Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
Adam Mansbach -
There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
Ian Botham -
It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.
Madhur Mittal -
All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
Ian Holm
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
Barry Zito -
Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
G. Stanley Hall -
When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
Wadah Khanfar -
Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
Carine Roitfeld -
The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
Nancy Allen -
I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
Carlos Ghosn
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
Saint Augustine -
'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
J. R. Smith -
I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
Iris Apfel -
I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
Barbara Hershey -
I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.
Idi Amin -
Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
Mahershala Ali
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You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.
Brian Tracy -
God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.
Queen Latifah -
It is harder to dress a bigger woman no matter what anybody wants to say.
Loni Love -
We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best.
Leontyne Price -
A country without borders is not a country.
Carlos Beruff -
As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.
Ha-Joon Chang