Raymond Kwok Quotes
In Hong Kong, the property business has always been very competitive, so we have to think of ways to get an edge over our competitors.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
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The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.
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I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.
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I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
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While I have the greatest respect for the Supreme Court's members, I cannot claim familiarity with any particular judicial philosophies the justices might possess.
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I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
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I'm just glad to be able to work.
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I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on 'American Horror Story' is a little bit more my cup of tea.
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I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.
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I am a feminist - I just think the label reflects my beliefs - but, you know, we say 'Rookie' is a website for teenage girls, not a feminist website for teenage girls. That's not because I'm not proud to call myself a feminist, but when you're calling attention to a project, you can very easily be pigeonholed by choosing certain identifiers.
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The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.
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I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'
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The pilot of 'Seinfeld' was made and dropped. 'Seinfeld' was not supposed to go to series.
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In Hong Kong, the property business has always been very competitive, so we have to think of ways to get an edge over our competitors.
