Andrew Young Quotes
No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to.
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Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.
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Within the U.S., you could have argued that most people who watch 'Mad Men' would watch 'House of Cards.' But the viewing is much more on par with the large-scale mainstream things like 'The Walking Dead.' It was much younger than we thought.
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My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.
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For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.
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If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.
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How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?
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If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them.
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Je ne sais pas de lecture plus facile, plus attrayante, plus douce que celle d'un catalogue.
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I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.
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I grew up around guitar players.
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'You're fired' was not a part of the deal. And when I went into the first board room, the very first one, I'm looking at these people, and I had to fire somebody, but we never thought in terms of the expression 'You're fired.'
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People hate negative tactics, but the fact is, as the 3 a.m. ad demonstrates, they can be very effective.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.
