Ha-Joon Chang Quotes
Being told by the IMF to go easy on austerity is like being told by the Spanish Inquisition to be more tolerant of heretics.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
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My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.
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All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Faith Hill is a big role model.
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I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina and didn't play a part in my life. He and my mother divorced when I was only two.
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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
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No. We don't really do that. We feel that objectifies women and that's not really what we're about.
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Sometimes you have to destroy your business in order to save it.
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I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual grievances in Palestine, Kashmir, and in central and southern Iraq, and to help the region out of its economic backwardness.
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Being told by the IMF to go easy on austerity is like being told by the Spanish Inquisition to be more tolerant of heretics.
