Iris Chang Quotes
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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A lot of cats are not that social.
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I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
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The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
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You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' And then she'll tell you everything that's not perfect. Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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I'm not sure if I'm going to get into coaching. I'm sure I'll stay in soccer somehow.
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I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.
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I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.
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Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
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You're terribly selfish, you know. I've loved you so long, and it was never dear or precious to you. I might as well have not loved you at all.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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My grandpa was the one; he started taking up golf when I was about two and introduced me to the game as far as just taking me to the driving range where I grew up playing. That was really all he had to do was let me hit a golf ball and kind of fell in love with it from there. He didn't really have to teach me a whole lot or anything.
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Over periods of 10,000 years the distinctions between Western and Eastern and African cultures lose all meaning. Over a time span of 100,000 years we are all Africans. And over a time span of 300 million years we are all amphibians, waddling uncertainly out of dried-up ponds onto the alien and hostile land.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
