Monika Chiang Quotes
If London is the Emerald City, then Los Angeles is what exists at the other end of the yellow brick road.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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The underdog winning is the romantic position.
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.
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Email is the greatest thing.
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I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.
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When you have a good idea, the money flows.
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It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.
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People go out of their way to show the love and respect for me. It is very gratifying.
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But the Queen has no such veto; She must sign her own death-warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to her.
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Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
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Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.
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If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.
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There's nothing wrong with having your goals really high and trying to achieve them. That's the fun part. You may come up short. I've come up short on a lot on my goals, but it's always fun to try and achieve them.
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If London is the Emerald City, then Los Angeles is what exists at the other end of the yellow brick road.
