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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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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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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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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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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Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
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Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.
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You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.
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He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all. Our forefathers threw off the yoke of Popery in religion; for you is reserved the honor of leveling the popery of politics. They opened the Bible to all, and maintained the capacity of every man to judge for himself in religion.
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A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.
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An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.
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Never boo or hiss at my rallies. That is for people with no hope.
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I reject the premise that liberal and libertarian values are necessarily in conflict. In fact, I often self-identify as a 'classical liberal.'
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Yesterday the IRS announced that obese Americans are entitled to certain tax breaks. Apparently, under the new rules, you're allowed to claim two or more chins as dependents.
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Many of my staff have been with me for over 20 years. I have a great team, and I make sure they feel respected and appreciated.
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My drive into high tech doesn't involve a lot of people - just me and a very small team.
