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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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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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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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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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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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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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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My brother is really, really slow.
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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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A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
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You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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My first job out of law school was as one of two women assistant U.S. attorneys in an office of 63 U.S. attorneys and the first woman to do criminal work appearing only before male judges. Scared? Every day of my life.
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WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.
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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.
