Nguyen Qui Duc Quotes
I met lots of people who felt it was important to give voice to immigrants and refugees. Once I started working in journalism, I found more opportunities. One great benefit is traveling and meeting interesting people. As a journalist, you can call up anyone and ask to interview them, meet them, and learn things.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.
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It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.
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Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.
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They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.
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While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
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I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house.
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There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.
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I've only been to jail once, and I didn't get my tattoos there.
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Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.
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Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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I read so many things because a colleague or a friend will post something, and I'll be able to learn a tremendous amount only because they drew attention to it. So I try to do that for others, and that's the great thing about social media. It's not always a narcissistic cesspool or waste of time.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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Everyone thinks I'm singing falsetto, but that's my normal singing voice.
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It's difficult for me, to look into eyes of a journalist and trust him to present it as you say.
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I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.
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I met lots of people who felt it was important to give voice to immigrants and refugees. Once I started working in journalism, I found more opportunities. One great benefit is traveling and meeting interesting people. As a journalist, you can call up anyone and ask to interview them, meet them, and learn things.
