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 feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background.
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When I was 20, I wrote a film on spec and sent it to the BBC. They wrote back, 'Usually, when we reject submissions, we like to offer some encouragement, but in your case, we don't see any point in you continuing.' I took it as encouragement anyway, thinking that only people who write terrible things are capable of writing great things.
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First I opened a check account. I looked at the - I looked that there was nothing of yield. So I bought some bonds. It was a bond. When I bought this bond, it was duplicated in 10 years. I think it was 10 percent.
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My drive into high tech doesn't involve a lot of people - just me and a very small team.
