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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To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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Here's an interesting thing about L.A. - it's overrun with black widow spiders. I could find you one on the street in 10 minutes.
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Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.
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Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
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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.