Nguyen Qui Duc Quotes

We need to let the country open up and let the people have a moment of enjoyment, have a better life. When you ask me to be hopeful, I’m hopeful because it’s a young country, it’s a young population. It’s energetic, and that drives me. That gives me hope, that makes me young. That makes me want to believe in this country and in this town. It’s such a wonderful place to be.

Nguyen Qui Duc

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• I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Reality
  • Funny
  • Realize

• If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Life
  • Work
  • Day

• The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Important
  • Woman
  • Clothes

• I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Country
  • Children

• To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Feeling
  • Best
  • Being

• You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Why
  • Me

• Nothing is more important than when you see someone for the first time, and you get that feeling where you can't move or speak or do anything until you know that person and take a sense of who they are with you.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Time
  • Important
  • Feeling

• I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Good
  • Book
  • Want

• When we speak of mom winning custody or of dad getting visitation time, we speak of someone winning, someone losing. When we speak of mom or dad spending 'parent time' with a child, we speak of two parents, not a parent versus a visitor.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Dad

• A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Artist
  • Inspiration

• Lajja is a humanist appeal so that unpleasant things don’t happen any more. So that people can manage to coexist in mutual respect and to help religion truly embrace humanity.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • People
  • Help
  • Respect

• Ch. XIX : Grand Pontiff, p. 321

  

  Albert Pike

• When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.

  

  Bob Saget
  • Famous

• It's never bad to be liked, and who doesn't feel good being liked, but that can't be your end game goal.

  

  Jessica Capshaw
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Game

• Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world. That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.

  

  Bette Midler
  • World
  • Children
  • Why

• Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach... love is close by... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation... everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!

  

  Dave Sitek Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • Song
  • Alone

• To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

  

  Frank Herbert
  • Beginning

• We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

  

  Bret Harte
  • Die
  • Beginning

• Soul is a colourless thing. I don't think you have to be a black person to be automatically soulful. I respect Justin Bieber and Justin Timberlake; they do what they do. For me, my philosophy has always been 'contribution before competition.'

  

  Gerald Maxwell Rivera
  • Soul
  • Black
  • Respect

• My grandmother told me: 'Never be in debt to anyone or anything.' Which is probably why I've never been financially extravagant - I still go to Costco. I'm always conscious of living within my means.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Why
  • Grandmother

• For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • Country
  • Book
  • Lost

• Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.

  

  Albert Claude
  • May
  • Action

• Security has to be, and has long been, our government's top priority. It is imperative that we continue to diligently watch for potential threats by all appropriate means.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • Long
  • Priority

• We need to let the country open up and let the people have a moment of enjoyment, have a better life. When you ask me to be hopeful, I’m hopeful because it’s a young country, it’s a young population. It’s energetic, and that drives me. That gives me hope, that makes me young. That makes me want to believe in this country and in this town. It’s such a wonderful place to be.

  

  Nguyen Qui Duc
  • Country
  • Hopeful
  • Better Life