Michael Lee-Chin Quotes
My wealth came from growing businesses. I had wealth, but not liquidity. Basically I transferred illiquid shares of AIC for liquid shares of Manulife. Now I'm the biggest individual shareholder of Manulife.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.
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Few states, they have the international borders, state borders; in India, there is so much diversity in system. Unity in diversity is our system, so therefore, you cannot take for granted, whatever you do.
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'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.
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Phone networks can capture life on our planet.
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In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.
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We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
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Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.
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Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.
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After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
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In-N-Out Burger has a well-known and long standing reputation as a corporation that is operated with a Christian message and philosophy.
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This year, I will be more thoughtful of my fellow man; exert more effort in each of my endeavors professionally as well as personally; take love wherever I find it, and offer it to everyone who will take it.
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The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in.
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Cut down on your use of plastic shopping bags because many end up in the ocean.
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Once you're more aware of people's needs, you can create action plans for others to follow. That way, you're responsible for your own well-being, too.
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We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.
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I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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You substitute certain things from your own personal life to get you to that mental place and that emotional state. At that time [Brian Robbins] went for the home run, the grand slam [in "Hardball"].
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I think, early on, I was very distrustful of authority yet needed a lot of approval from it. I was in that kind of bind. Which is a kind of abuse bind.
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I’m trying to transmit the visions of creativity and build institutions that are incredibly catalytic to their fields.
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My wealth came from growing businesses. I had wealth, but not liquidity. Basically I transferred illiquid shares of AIC for liquid shares of Manulife. Now I'm the biggest individual shareholder of Manulife.
