Perry Chen Quotes

I'm born and raised in New York. I've lived between New York and New Orleans for the last 16 to 17 years.

Perry Chen

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• If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Enjoy

• I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Why
  • Lost
  • Sometimes

• Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Country
  • America
  • Future

• Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Time
  • America
  • Justice

• My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Value
  • Religious
  • Commitment

• It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mistake
  • Silence
  • Darkness

• Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Long
  • Women

• All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Good
  • Me
  • I Can

• Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Age
  • First
  • Ever

• I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts of the Midwest. It was very well received, but I didn't get national exposure on my second album.

  

  T.I.
  • Think
  • Man
  • First

• Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Real

• I'm representing the single women out there, dating around, trying to find the right guy who respects you and appreciates you. Maybe I'll settle down somewhere. Gotta keep looking.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Guy

• I was really fat in school.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • School
  • Really
  • Fat

• We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Good
  • History
  • Guilt

• Now that my wine has been served in the White House, why not me? Who could talk to farmers better than I? Somebody even asked me the other day if I had anything in my platform about taxes. 'Hell yes,' I said. 'Great state. But I wouldn't want to live there.'

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Great
  • Live
  • Why

• Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Work
  • Great
  • Forever

• I knew I was outspoken when I was a kid because, whenever my parents had company coming over, they would pay me to leave. 'Go see your grandmother. Get out of here.' That was my first paying gig.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Parents
  • Grandmother
  • Pay

• Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Long

• I definitely think of myself as a musician first.

  

  Lucia Micarelli

• There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Done
  • You
  • Thing

• The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Age
  • Mystery
  • Greatest

• Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mother
  • Nature
  • Friend

• The intellectual development of man, far from having get men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, bring them to a refinment always more perfected in the art of killing. They even came to raise the methods of slaughter to the rank of "science"... We would not (On ne saurait", Fr.) imagine a more extraordinary moral blindness!

  

  African Spir
  • Imagine
  • Development
  • Blindness

• I'm born and raised in New York. I've lived between New York and New Orleans for the last 16 to 17 years.

  

  Perry Chen