Freddie Wong Quotes
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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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Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.
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We followed the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, who is the boss. And we don't waste a lot of time arguin' about a dead black man, Malcolm X, when the whites are our common enemies.
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There is a supply for every demand.
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In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities.
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Some of us will never ever find true love. Take, for instance me. And I'm pretty sure that guy right there. And that lady with the sideburns. And basically everybody at table nine.
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