Priscilla Chan Quotes

If bad things happen to you as a kid, it's hard for you to succeed as an adult.

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• I've directed independent film.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Film
  • Independent
  • Directed

• As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Home
  • Society
  • Girl

• All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

  

  Sallust
  • Friendship
  • Anger
  • Hatred

• In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Game
  • Know
  • Pool

• My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.

  

  Jack Black
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Country
  • Think
  • Song

• Making music is fantastic.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Music
  • Making
  • Fantastic

• 'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Black
  • Reading
  • Deep

• Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • America
  • Opportunity

• Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • Think
  • Trump

• My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Great
  • College
  • Brother

• For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • People
  • Fear
  • Gay

• If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.

  

  Ice T
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • People
  • Attention
  • Noticing

• To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Crime
  • Open
  • Citizen

• You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • School
  • High
  • Comedy

• I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Feel
  • Acting
  • Emotions

• When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to be. I've been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music.

  

  Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
  • Music
  • She
  • Suicide

• I enjoy hanging out with friends, going on hikes and playing tennis. I also enjoy Bible study and making dinners. I have a pretty mellow life away from the water.

  

  Bethany Hamilton
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Pretty

• Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Important
  • Done
  • Bad

• Everything's borne out of human experience, of course - rejection, humiliation, poverty, whatever. People aren't born bad, no matter how harsh the circumstances. There is a person in there, and that person is not made of ice.

  

  Aidan Gillen
  • People
  • Experience
  • Bad

• If bad things happen to you as a kid, it's hard for you to succeed as an adult.

  

  Priscilla Chan
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