Priscilla Chan Quotes

We are all more capable than we could ever imagine or admit to.

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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.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Age
  • Started
  • Menopause

• Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Up
  • You
  • Rights

• To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Man
  • Poor
  • Race

• 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.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Career
  • Parents
  • Education

• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Sun
  • Yellow

• 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.'

  

  Kate Spade
  • Smoking
  • Lady
  • Elephant

• 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.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Family
  • Food

• The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Universe
  • Tree

• Why limit yourself? I feel like I can do anything.

  

  Zendaya
  • Why
  • Yourself
  • I Can

• Tel Aviv is the most exciting place to eat in Israel.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Place
  • Israel
  • Eat

• Movies are romantic fantasies.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Movies
  • Romantic
  • Fantasies

• 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.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Up
  • Children
  • Heart

• 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.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • True
  • Feeling
  • Poetry

• 3: Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.

  

  Alan Perlis
  • Cancer

• 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)

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Question
  • Doubt

• 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.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good
  • Positive

• 'Why?' Dallben interrupted. 'In some cases,' he said, 'we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.'

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Why
  • Question
  • Learning

• Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he is not a man who can be trusted to keep an agreement. Now he has torn up all his country's promises to the Suez Canal Company and has even gone back on his own statements.

  

  Anthony Eden
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.

  

  Matthew Lawrence
  • Life
  • Real

• The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Body
  • Physical
  • Work Of Art

• So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life.

  

  Winston Groom
  • Looks
  • Happened
  • Satisfaction

• Sure, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was my first documentary. What a wonderful experience. I saw Al Gore doing his slideshow presentation, and had this nutty idea that we had to make a movie out of it.

  

  Lawrence Bender
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Movie

• How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep...that have taken hold.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Understand
  • Pickup
  • Old Life

• We are all more capable than we could ever imagine or admit to.

  

  Priscilla Chan