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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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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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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Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.
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I went in, and there, in the front room, a converted bedroom, sat the first radio I had ever seen. The equipment was so bulky that it took up one entire wall of the bedroom. The set, which could send or receive signals, was tuned to KDKA in Pittsburgh, and I remember being completely flabbergasted at the thought of sounds coming from that box.
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I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.
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Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.
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If you don't pay bribes, people think you're odd. It's very sad. I cannot say that I'm proud to be an Indonesian. This is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.
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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.
