Priscilla Chan Quotes
My identity, I felt, was so distinct. I felt very much like an outsider. My family didn't have the same rituals that everyone else seemed to have.
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
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I have the most supportive parents and family in the entire world.
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I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.
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I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.
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Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.
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Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
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I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.
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A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
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Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
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As far as Raman Raghav is concerned, he is ruthless.
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I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.
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I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a retired policeman, and my mom works for a glass-processing company. She is health-and-safety manager, and my stepfather is a plumber. I have four half siblings, one from my mom's marriage and three from my dad's marriage, so we are kind of scattered.
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As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.
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Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.
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I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.
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My husband does say it is Australia's job and my family's job to keep me grounded. They do a very good job!
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I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There were three brothers in the family. One was Orthodox Christian. The other two took Islam to survive.
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I'm the captain of the Variety Club over in England, and so I'm playing golf for them once a week but doing odd bits.
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The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?
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My identity, I felt, was so distinct. I felt very much like an outsider. My family didn't have the same rituals that everyone else seemed to have.
