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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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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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'm drawn to bad romances.
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What's funny is I probably still have some calligraphy business cards floating out in the world, and I can't wait for someone to call me in a month or something, and say, 'Can you do these for my son's Bar Mitzvah?'
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We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global.
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You have to be passionate about your business. If you don't love your business, you are doing a terrible disservice to your customers and clients, your team members and business partners, your family and yourself.
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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.