Ha-Joon Chang Quotes
The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.
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When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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I read a lot of true crime growing up – 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.
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We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.
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Although we have enough healthcare support, often it doesn't reach the poor and needy. In this scenario, technology is the best solution.
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My mother read me biblical stories at night.
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I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.
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Shakespeare is universal.
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There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.
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I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.
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To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
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I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
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I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.
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But you've got to make choices, and you're not going to be right all the time.
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It's no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain.
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I can't think of anything that's hit me harder in my life than when I learned that three of our youngest grandchildren were diagnosed with Niemann-Pick C.
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Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy.
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The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.
