Brenda Song Quotes
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
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Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It's depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat the same sandwich in every single city in the world. But the biggest bummer is when you see a Subway in Berlin. Just devastating.
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The oceans produce up to 70 percent of our oxygen, they shape our climate, and they support an American oceans economy larger than our nation's entire agriculture sector.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
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Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.
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I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.
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Empowering women with greater income opportunities will lift societies at a much faster rate.
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I love to lounge, and I particularly love to eat outdoors. It's a throwback to my childhood in Hawaii. I have memories of coming out of the sea and eating corn chips with a strawberry vanilla slush.
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If I spent my time wondering about what genre I wanted to be in or where I was on the charts, I wouldn't be able to write these kinds of song. I'd be too busy doing other things.
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I believe in workers' rights when people are doing a good job.
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I joke around all the time, 'I'm Asian; I'm really good at math.'
