Nguyen Cao Ky Quotes
If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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I fed my ego, but not my soul.
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I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
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My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.
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Universal human characteristics are a good base for great art.
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The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.
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The Jews are not a part of a vast Whole which they re-integrate in dying, but they are a Whole in themselves, defying space, time, life, and death. Can God be outside the Whole? If he exists, necessarily he confounds himself with this Whole...Thus Divinity in Judaism is contained in the exaltation of the entity represented by the Race - passionnel entity, eternal flame, it is the Divine essence. It must be preserved and perpetuated, therefore the idea of pure and impure was created.
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History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
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If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.
