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.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Very
  • Content

• 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.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Want
  • Night
  • Understand

• 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.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Guy

• I was authorized to do everything that I did.

  

  Oliver North
  • Everything
  • Did
  • Authorized

• You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Find
  • Sugar

• Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Power
  • Genius
  • Innocence

• 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.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Opinion
  • Popular
  • Diversity

• People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • World
  • Character

• 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.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Culinary
  • Tastes
  • Recipe

• The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Here
  • Middle East
  • Improved

• 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.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Morning
  • Couple

• 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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Pay
  • Films

• 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.'

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Today
  • Day
  • Crazy

• Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Work
  • Music
  • Career

• How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Childhood
  • Times
  • Repeat

• I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Hate

• 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.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Day

• America's got amazing presentation, especially New York - the most potent, strongest, concentrated, amazing presentation.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • America
  • Amazing
  • New York

• Suffer love; a good epithet! I do suffer love, indeed, for I love thee against my will.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Suffering
  • Thee
  • Benedick

• I like to say, 'Chop suey's the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another,' because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means 'tsap sui,' which, if you translate back, means 'odds and ends.'

  

  Jennifer 8. Lee
  • Culture
  • Chinese

• I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.

  

  Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
  • Read
  • Lot

• You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Up
  • Light
  • Control

• No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • History
  • Place
  • Remembered

• 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.

  

  Godfrey Gao
  • Chinese
  • Strange
  • Read