Monika Chiang Quotes
What I love about London is the energy and the creativity. Culturally, it is such a happening city, from the cuisine to the fashion.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.
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When you're a politician, someone always wants something from you, so they're constantly telling you how smart or great you are, and that can warp people! Exercising humility is important to me. My friends back home treat me like the same person I was when I was waiting tables.
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I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
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I've got about 5 million followers on Twitter, and if I tweet anything, there will be faux outrage.
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I want to be remembered as the football player I was. The private person is nobody's business.
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There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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If you're a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez 43, or any other Bushes, then you know an 18-hole round of golf shouldn't take more than three hours out of your day - there are other important things to do.
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
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A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion.
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The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.
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But everything you do in life has a downside.
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I certainly fall in love with artists. I think that's probably the aspiration of an artist, to make a listener empathize so deeply that they do fall in love with you.
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What I love about London is the energy and the creativity. Culturally, it is such a happening city, from the cuisine to the fashion.
