Priscilla Chan Quotes
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I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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I like my stationery to be funnier, like, 'Here's my note, and it's an elephant with a lady smoking a cigarette on top.'
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Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I was grateful the program was there so I could concentrate on my schoolwork and not on my empty belly. We were grateful that we had the support we needed to roll up our sleeves and rebuild our lives.
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The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.
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When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'
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Why limit yourself? I feel like I can do anything.
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Tel Aviv is the most exciting place to eat in Israel.
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Movies are romantic fantasies.
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If anyone did that, I absolutely apologize. … Because everything we do is based at adults. We're asking adults be responsible. You were telling me about giving your children meat and milk. They're going to be to grow up to be tubs of lard. They're getting heart attacks.
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Concrete poetry began for me with the extraordinary sense that the syntax I had been using , the movement of language within me, af a physical level was no longer there. So it had to be replaced with something else with a syntax and movement that would be true of this new feeling.
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3: Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.
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Scepticism is not irrefutable, but obviously nonsensical, when it tries to raise doubts where no questions can be asked. For doubt can exist only where a question exists, a question only where an answer exists, and an answer only where something can be said. (6.51)
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They have, all of them, such wonderful good manners. Not taught good manners - the natural thing. I could never have believed till I came here that natural courtesy could be such a wonderful - such a positive thing.
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Black Lives Matter is one iteration of a much larger struggle to fight for black people's freedom.
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I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.
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I don't eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now.
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Once in a while, the universe lets you be free alone and in peace.
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I normally try to ignore presidential tweets.
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We are all more capable than we could ever imagine or admit to.
