Jenova Chen Quotes
When I read a good story, I often start thinking, 'Should I live my life according to what this character chooses and values?' It makes me think. I feel like I grew up to be a more mature person while thinking about character development in these fictional situations.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.
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During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.
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Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.
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The principal might yield a greater sum,Yet handled ill, amounts but to this crumb;
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This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.
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If you work in a home office, you can likely write off that space, as long as you use it only for work.
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My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.
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I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story.
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When I read a good story, I often start thinking, 'Should I live my life according to what this character chooses and values?' It makes me think. I feel like I grew up to be a more mature person while thinking about character development in these fictional situations.
