Wen Ho Lee Quotes
I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.
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You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.
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When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
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Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.
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The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.
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Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?
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You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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It sounds super cliche, but my sister is 12 years younger than me, and I remember when I was there holding her in my arms for the first time. And that kind of responsibility you feel when you hold a child in your arms.
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Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
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I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.
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Getting older doesn't bother me. When I was 30, I thought I should have achieved more, but you get more comfortable and think it's time to stop putting pressure on yourself.
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'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.
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I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.
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President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
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I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'
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We've never made progress in this country or in this state by lowering expectations.
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In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.
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Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.
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A huge dollar bill is the most accurate way to teach children the real motto of the United States: In the Almighty Dollar We Trust... Until the average American realizes that capitalism damages her livelihood while augmenting the livelihoods of the wealthy, the Almighty Dollar will continue to rule. It certainly is not ruling in our favor.
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I don't know one lens from another. That's not my job. It's the cinematographer's job. But I can talk to people.
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I'm kind of a geek when it comes to talking about chord structures or melody, so I always loved in-depth conversations with musicians about things. I also enjoy when a fan can just put something on, and they really know nothing about music other than they like it and it touches them in some way.
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I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.
