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People want you to be happy, don't keep serving them your pain

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• As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.

  

  Randall Park
  • Comedy
  • See
  • Stereotypes

• I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Choices
  • Son

• As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Relationships

• You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

  

  Ed Harris
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Often

• I want Prince to see something I do and call me and ask me to be on an album or if I want to dance!

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Want
  • Me
  • Dance

• In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Done
  • Business
  • Strong

• Ever since I was little, my mum used to choose an outfit for me and lay it on the bed so I'd know what I was wearing the next day. I never went to a uniformed school, so I always had an outfit – and I never really grew out of that, I don't think.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • School
  • Day
  • Always

• I've known Mark Hughes for half a lifetime. We joined Barcelona in the same summer of 1986, played together under Terry Venables and Luis Aragones, and have kept in touch ever since.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Together
  • Summer
  • Same

• Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Myself
  • Anger
  • Peaceful

• Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Help
  • Looking
  • Tragedy

• When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Man

• It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Fun
  • More
  • Critic

• No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Live
  • Country
  • Society

• In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Good
  • Believe
  • America

• Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.

  

  Adam Braun
  • World
  • Education
  • Alone

• Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Men

• Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Women
  • Amazing
  • English

• Unfortunately, our stock is somehow not well understood by the markets. The market compares us with generic companies. We need to look at Biocon as a bellwether stock. A stock that is differentiated, a stock that is focused on R&D, and a very, very strong balance sheet with huge value drivers at the end of it.

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • Strong
  • Value
  • Balance

• Though miles may lie between us, we're never far apart, for friendship doesn't count the miles, it's measured by the heart.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Heart
  • May
  • Friendship

• We've always liked music in movies, you know, just 'cause it helps tell the story. It can be emotional. It can be funny. It can be so many different things. And it just and it gives you variety from and again, there's a certain stylization that happens with music. Animation and music seem to go together well.

  

  John Musker
  • Different
  • Together
  • Giving

• Economic theory dictates that the value of a company is basically the present value of its future profits. To estimate Facebook's value through its future profits, we need to have a view on its user growth and how this will evolve in the next 10 to 50 years.

  

  Didier Sornette
  • Future
  • Value
  • Present

• People want you to be happy, don't keep serving them your pain

  

  Rumi
  • People
  • Happy
  • You