Eddie Huang Quotes
I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I take my work seriously.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning, not contraception...This (use of contraceptives) turns the attention to self and so it destroys the gift of love in him or her. In loving, the husband and wife must turn the attention to each other as happens in natural family planning, and not to self, as happens in contraception. Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows easily . . . And abortion, which often follows from contraception, brings a people to be spiritually poor, and that is the worst poverty and the most difficult to overcome.
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
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I like America, where believers eddy around each other like currents of air. Even our atheists are devout! To be an American is to be a believer. I don't have much faith in institutions, but I still believe in people.
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I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.
