Priscilla Chan Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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I see a lot of comments on Twitter and stuff about how ugly I am, how bad I am at the drums, how awkward I look, and I'm like, yeah, I agree with most of those things.
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I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn't care for it in other people either.
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Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.
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When I was a kid in junior high, I had an assignment to discuss how to rescue poor people in India. I remember my teacher at the time considered it an impossible problem. Now, we're not talking that way anymore. We're sure not talking about that for China. They're rescuing themselves thanks to globalization.
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Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.
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Teach for America has helped us understand what works and what doesn't.
