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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • People
  • Good

• I own more pairs of Calvin Klein underwear than I can count. At any given time, I probably have 50 to 60 pairs on deck. I travel with an entire suitcase of underwear and t-shirts, and they're all Calvin Klein.

  

  Trey Songz
  • Time
  • Travel

• The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

  

  Lawrence Welk
  • Time

• It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.

  

  William Hague
  • Country
  • Strong
  • Giving

• We saw a countless number of post-chaises full of boys pass by yesterday morning - full of future heroes, legislators, fools, and villains. You have never thanked me for my last letter, which went by the cheese. I cannot bear not to be thanked.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Future
  • Morning

• The time has come to seriously ask whether antioxidant use much more likely causes than prevents cancer.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Time
  • Cancer

• There is never any valid reason for not being in full mental focus.

  

  Barbara Branden
  • Focus
  • Reason
  • Full

• 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