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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Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.
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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.
