Michael Chang Quotes
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
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I very, very rarely get the opportunity to go shopping and actually feel the clothes and try things on. I love shopping, but I do it mostly through Net-a-Porter.
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New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise.
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It's hard not to love everything Prada does.
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I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came to the region to fight in Vietnam and stayed to work assisting refugees.
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My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
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To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.
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Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.
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Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth.
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What's the difference between yes and no?
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It's a world where anyone you're selling to probably has just as much information as you, has lots of choices, and all kinds of ways to talk back. And so, the low road is less and less of an option. You actually have to take the high road: Be more honest, more direct, more transparent.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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I was never one for multi-cameras; my approach was always... I always considered there was only one place to be to do a shot.
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As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.
