Sandra Tsing Loh Quotes
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
W. H. Auden -
We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.
Anand Giridharadas -
To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.
Longchenpa -
I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.
Alfredo Kraus -
You can want and hope, or you can make it happen.
Alonzo Mourning
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The stuffs you're good at and the stuffs you're bad at are just different parts of the same thing. Same goes for people you love and the people you don't. And the people who love you and the people who don't. The only thing that mattered was that you cared about a few people.
Kami Garcia -
A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast - And half believe it true.
Lewis Carroll -
You start out with big dreams and I mean, big dreams artistically. You want to work with the greatest living directors, make a great movie. I wanted to make a great love story, I wanted to make a great epic and then you realize that the truth of it is that it's so hard to make a great film. It's hard to get a great role. Those big expectations change to realism pretty quickly. But what's never changed is my desire to work with great directors and to find projects that push me out of my comfort zone and keep me alive. I still don't think I've done my best work.
Nicole Kidman -
I'm obsessed with 'Top Chef'.
Kate Winslet -
My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me.
John Barrymore
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I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.
Mohsin Hamid -
Los Angeles is the nation's cultural scapegoat.
Sandra Tsing Loh