Freddie Wong Quotes
When you have a home and create a brand people believe in and want to support, it makes it easier for you to control merchandise and sell it.
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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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The issue with Syria, I think for many of us, has always been about Iran. This is an anchor point for them in terms of regional domination. It means a lot to them. They are all in here.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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My looks vary, but I definitely think about it and plan. I like to shop, too, so I'm always mixing it up. But normally, I'll be wearing something like a college T-shirt and a sweater, something like that. But I definitely have to plan.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
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I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.
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It's always just a great thing to see your kids connecting and you see the different stages.
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You can't go on stage and live - it's false all the way. I can't stand the premise of going out in jeans and a guitar and looking as real as you can in front of 18,000 people. I mean, it's not normal!
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I have never had the money to make too many large purchases.
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You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn't work that way.
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When you have a home and create a brand people believe in and want to support, it makes it easier for you to control merchandise and sell it.
