Monika Chiang Quotes
Truthfully, the hardest part about fashion is not the vision or one great idea, but the execution of each aspect.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.
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I'm tired of living in a police state.
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.
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People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church.
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Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew.
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To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.
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I drink seven Coca-Colas a day. Regular Coke, which is really bad for me.
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So many stories have been told about Black Lives Matter. The beauty of building out a decentralized network, the beauty of building out something that's a hashtag, is that so many people can take it and run with it. The bad part about that is so many folks can take it and run with it - and misuse it and co-opt it.
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Perhaps the greatest challenge for the resolution of a systemic global bank is the possibility that public or private actors in different countries might take local actions that would cause the overall resolution to spin out of control.
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As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.
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All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.
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My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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Truthfully, the hardest part about fashion is not the vision or one great idea, but the execution of each aspect.
