Raymond Kwok Quotes
My drive into high tech doesn't involve a lot of people - just me and a very small team.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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I am happy in Paris.
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I'm determined not to start dressing like I'm 45 years old now that I'm a mum.
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I prefer playing ATP tournaments and Davis Cup competition rather than Olympic Games.
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When you look at the fittest, leanest populations like Japan and Scandinavia, they don't even go to the gym. The average person in Sydney takes 11,000 steps a day, and the average person in Houston does 4000. Guess who is going to be leaner, regardless of their diet?
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We'd play at the Ambassador's house for an invited group of dignitaries from the government that might have gone to school in America; to the U.S. Consulate that invites certain people that they're trying to target.
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When surroundings change, we should also change how we make money.
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I grew up with not a lot of money and I definitely shopped at Goodwill. But even in my most unfortunate state, I was really blessed compared to a lot of the rest of the world. I had a really great chance to follow my dreams and have them actually come true.
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My drive into high tech doesn't involve a lot of people - just me and a very small team.
