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.

Ha-Joon Chang

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• Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Home
  • Feeling
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• We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • 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.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
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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.

  

  Xavier Dolan
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• I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.

  

  Sade Adu
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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.

  

  Mamie Gummer
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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.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Dream
  • Alone
  • Speak

• My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Dinner

• 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.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Place
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  • Half

• I didn't particularly like being objectified.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Like
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• I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.

  

  Gary Numan
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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.

  

  Xenophon
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• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• Faith Hill is a big role model.

  

  Taylor Swift
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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.

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • Life
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  • Father

• Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

  

  A. S. Byatt
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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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• Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than the dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by religion.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • People
  • Art

• Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Great
  • Movie

• I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests.

  

  Ashley Judd
  • Different
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• I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt like, 'Oh that's a good idea.' But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Sometimes
  • Moment

• Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories.

  

  Said Musa
  • Work
  • English
  • Independent

• When I'm home, my family makes Mexican food, and we listen to a lot of Spanish music together. We love dancing to it.

  

  Ally Brooke Fifth Harmony
  • Music
  • Family
  • Home

• Being told by the IMF to go easy on austerity is like being told by the Spanish Inquisition to be more tolerant of heretics.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Spanish