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 take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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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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What is silence, is it more solid than a stone?
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In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market - the executives would get to loot their own firms once, then they'd be looking for jobs again.
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I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.
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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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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.
