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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Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.
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The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
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My argument for that is: Why not create urban farms that are like parks, on public land? There actually is a park that I see as a model: Dover Street Park in Oakland. They took this park that has swings and playground-type things and turned it into a farm. There's not chickens, just annual vegetables interspersed with fruit trees. And it's super cool because you see people playing with their kids and then they go pick raspberries and some greens for dinner.
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We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light.
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We're going to be human, and we are going to make mistakes, but you really should understand the power that you have and embrace it in a positive 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.
