Michael Kadoorie Quotes
Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.
Quotes to Explore
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
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When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.
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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.
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The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.
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I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.
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Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.
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There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.
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How sweet Japanese woman is! All the possibilities of the race for goodness seem to be concentrated in her.
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If I'm a faggot spell it right, I got way more than two G's
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I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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The art of 'figuring' or 'picturing' is not a fine art. An artist who is lobbying as a 'creature of circumstances' or log rolling as a 'victim of fate' is not a fine master artist. No one ever forces an artist to be pure.
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Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.
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Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.
