Godfrey Gao Quotes
Sometimes I read that I'm not 100 per cent Chinese, because I don't look all that Chinese. That's a strange one - I am Chinese.
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I'm very content.
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I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
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Y'know what? This is what I go by: It doesn't matter how good-looking a guy is, it just depends on his personality. If a guy can make you laugh and make fun of you, then that's what would win me over. So, yeah.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
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You numb yourself so you're not terrified when you're on TV at 7 o'clock in the morning with Justin Bieber, who you just met a couple of days before, having to perform in front of millions of people.
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I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.
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What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'
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Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.
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How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.
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I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.
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With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
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America's got amazing presentation, especially New York - the most potent, strongest, concentrated, amazing presentation.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.
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When Libya was in turmoil in 2011, the Chinese public was surprised to discover that more than thirty thousand of their countrymen were living there, most of them working on Chinese-run oil projects.
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Each of these lines attempts to serve a portion of our population for which we extend our sympathy and encouragement. But nevertheless, it is only a small portion of South Carolina's chronically ill or abused. Overall, these special add-on lines distract from the agency's broader mission of protecting South Carolina's public health.
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Sometimes I read that I'm not 100 per cent Chinese, because I don't look all that Chinese. That's a strange one - I am Chinese.
