Joan Chen Quotes

Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.

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• Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Up
  • Country
  • Art

• I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Engagement
  • Open
  • Dialogue

• When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Love
  • You
  • Learn

• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Women
  • Influence

• It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • Country
  • Company
  • Impossible

• We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.

  

  A. James Clark
  • People
  • Good
  • Opportunities

• I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Famous

• The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Family
  • Society
  • Personality

• As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Community
  • Support
  • City

• I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I think it affects the actors, and I think it affects the crew. There's that sensation like you're really shooting it for real, like in a documentary.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Real
  • Think
  • Man

• It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Song
  • You
  • Should

• I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Experience
  • Religious
  • Never

• I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Way
  • Relationship
  • Too Much

• I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Life
  • Real
  • Need

• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Freedom
  • Care
  • Injustice

• Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Why
  • Learn
  • Paint

• No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • She
  • Woman
  • Sexy

• My life's goal is not to write books; my life's goal is to know God better today. The neat thing about a goal like that is you can achieve it. Faith is constant; it's a relationship.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • Life
  • God
  • Today

• Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so.

  

  Shakuntala Devi
  • Different
  • Immorality
  • Allowing

• No matter what barbershop you go to, there's always that guy who's just hanging around and doesn't do much, but knows everything that's going on in the community.

  

  Deon Cole
  • Community
  • Everything
  • Hanging

• Well, here's what I'll say: The storytellers of 'Lost' have taken us on a pretty great journey, and there have been questions along the way, and criticisms along the way, but if you look at the totality of the show, or the experience of it as a whole, I think as long as you look at it from that perspective you'll be happy.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • Great
  • Long
  • Experience

• Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.

  

  Joan Chen
  • Experience