Priscilla Chan Quotes
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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Everyone takes a bad selfie - the first thing is to know that.
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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
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I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.
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When you think about where are you going to find that big love of your life, you seldom think it's someone you already know. You think it's someone you're yet to meet.
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I never know how to get off the phone, so I'm terribly admiring of people who can.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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All these songs honestly explore the ups and downs of my reality.
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Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.
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I bossed my middle sister around all the time.
