James Hong Quotes
I am very fussy; I am very detailed; I nag a lot. So in a sense, I am like Mr. Ping. I am temperamental, I am emotional, I'm fussy, and I'm very exact. And I want people to not fail; I want them to execute - all those things Mr. Ping wants in other people. Or animals.
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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There is a lot to be said for collaboration, and it should be seen as just another way to do things as it is in other forms of writing, such as for television, where it is standard practice.
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The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.
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My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.
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I can't write what I don't believe in.
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I am very fussy; I am very detailed; I nag a lot. So in a sense, I am like Mr. Ping. I am temperamental, I am emotional, I'm fussy, and I'm very exact. And I want people to not fail; I want them to execute - all those things Mr. Ping wants in other people. Or animals.
