Michelle Kwan Quotes
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
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We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots are on the wall. So yeah, we just throw darts at the ones we don't want anymore.
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I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.
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My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.
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Form follows beauty.
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Human emotion is more interesting than anything. Everything that is so overtly sexual is not real. Real emotion is sexy. It's vulnerable and raw.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.
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You have to pace yourself. As a producer, you start with a concept and shepherd it through the script to the delivery of the film. It's a very long journey for an hour and 40 minutes of movie.
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The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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A true measure of an entrepreneur / successful-person is how they deal with adversity.
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I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.
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Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.
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The Internet was crucial for our success. It is a great thing. It is a big democracy because people can choose what they like.
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I don't know secret to success, but I'm pretty sure the closest thing is preparation
