Emily Chang Quotes
Managing directors at top-tier investment banks may pocket a million a year and be worth tens of millions after a long career. Early employees at tech firms like Uber, Airbnb, and Snapchat can make many times that amount of money in a matter of years.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
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I never read the tabloids.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.
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I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
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In the tradition of Abudhar, who is my mentor, whose thought, whose understanding of Islam and Shi'ism, and whose ideals, wants, and rage I emulate, I begin my talk with the name of the God of the oppressed (mustad'afan). My topic is very specific.
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Being in the Midwest, you get the best of all worlds and add your own flavor to it.
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There's nothing as real as money.
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None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.
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Managing directors at top-tier investment banks may pocket a million a year and be worth tens of millions after a long career. Early employees at tech firms like Uber, Airbnb, and Snapchat can make many times that amount of money in a matter of years.
