Priscilla Chan Quotes

My public school teachers did a great job of saying, 'Check this out. You're qualified for this. You should explore these opportunities.' They're the ones who said, 'You know, apply to Harvard. You might be a good fit here.'

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• I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Now

• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Way
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  • Champion

• I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Important
  • Power
  • Focus

• To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Fun
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• It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Done
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  • Stupid

• Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
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• When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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  • You
  • Timeless

• I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.

  

  Randy Schekman
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• In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
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• I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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• While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.

  

  Ma Jian
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• Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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  • Long

• I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.

  

  Eddie Money
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• Medicines are only fit for old people.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
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• Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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  • Champion
  • Olympic

• The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Body
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  • Complex

• Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Always

• Let's stop the startwatch.

  

  Murray Walker
  • Stop

• I wouldn't mind doing a soundtrack someday.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Mind
  • Doing
  • Soundtrack

• You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the focus to do that, really.

  

  Babatunde Adebimpe
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Song

• I dropped out of school after my tenth standard. But both my elder brother and younger brother are highly educated.

  

  Ajith Kumar
  • School
  • Brother

• My public school teachers did a great job of saying, 'Check this out. You're qualified for this. You should explore these opportunities.' They're the ones who said, 'You know, apply to Harvard. You might be a good fit here.'

  

  Priscilla Chan
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