Joe Chung Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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There's depth in my comedy.
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.
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Anticompetitive practices hurt Chinese private firms nearly as much as foreign ones.
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I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane. I wanted it - I wanted, if it was her plane, to have somehow survived because she was in the back of the airplane. But we know that doesn't happen, not with those sorts of things.
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I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.
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All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.
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Remember, things extremely hard to come by are not necessarily good.
