David Tang Quotes
I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.
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I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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I'm tired of living in a police state.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.
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I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.
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There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say.
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If I have any complaints about my youth... one is that many well-meaning adults lied to me. Not spiteful lies with malicious intent but lies designed to prevent emotional and psychological pain - lies told by the people who cared about me most: my parents, teachers, relatives.
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My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.
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Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term.
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I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.
