Perry Chen Quotes
I don't consider myself a social entrepreneur, but I'm thrilled to be doing good, if that's what I'm doing.
Quotes to Explore
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The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.
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Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.
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To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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I love a good comedy, but the slapstick sitcom belly-laugh sort of comedy - the multicam thing - is not really where my interests lie. I'm very interested in single-cam, in intimate portraits. I like it when comedies have a little bit of realism and a little bit of darkness to them. It makes them more palatable and more relatable and grounded.
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When I see something, I go for it.
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What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
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Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like 'charming' and 'clever' and 'pretty' are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.
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God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
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I don't consider myself a social entrepreneur, but I'm thrilled to be doing good, if that's what I'm doing.
