Vincent Tan Quotes
Some people made me out like the villain. I'm supposed to be the Bond villain, but actually I'm James Bond.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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I am aware that I look good for my age. It's my genes. My dad looked incredibly young, so did my mother. And a younger husband helps. Scott is only 45. If he hadn't come along, I don't know what I'd have done.
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
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I first learned the power of trust in the CIA. There is no question that when I joined the Agency as a covert operations officer, it was still run along the 'old boys' network' model.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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Oh, how much holier the world would be if more people invoked their right to remain silent.
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There must be an opportunity that matches with our strategy. Just because we have a gap, we don't want to go and acquire anything and everything. What we acquire should fit in with our strategy, human resources and market expectations.
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A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.
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A revenue-neutral carbon tax would benefit all Americans by eliminating the need for costly energy subsidies while promoting a level playing field for energy producers.
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Some people made me out like the villain. I'm supposed to be the Bond villain, but actually I'm James Bond.
