Arlene J. Chai Quotes

The past defines us as much as the present. By never knowing my past, I was never sure of who I was. Because mine was missing, I never felt whole.

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• I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Think
  • Man

• Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Now
  • Africa
  • Cyber

• It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Live
  • Dreams
  • Dwell

• I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Want

• I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Champion
  • Train
  • Mindset

• Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Proud
  • Only
  • Did

• We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Support
  • Doing
  • Something

• I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Baby

• My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.

  

  Zendaya
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Date

• In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Many
  • Did
  • Dictators

• I'd made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Time
  • Work
  • Money

• Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Problem
  • Security
  • Living

• I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else. Maybe I'll open up a chain of Popeye's Chicken.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Up
  • Long
  • Fun

• I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Golf
  • Run
  • Liverpool

• I think sometimes when you want attention, you can wear sunglasses, and people are like, 'Who is that?'

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Want
  • Attention

• Neither conservatives nor humorists believe man is good. But left-wingers do.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Believe

• There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Political
  • Black
  • Church

• To get elected in Mexico today, you have to compete like any democracy, and you don't do that by being manipulated.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Today
  • Democracy

• The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Believe
  • Past

• We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • People
  • Done
  • May

• We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Long
  • Past

• There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the high-tech world of Silicon Valley, where I live, to University R&D labs, to countless Main Street small business owners, Americans are taking risks, embracing new ideas and - most importantly - creating jobs.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Business
  • America
  • Jobs

• The past defines us as much as the present. By never knowing my past, I was never sure of who I was. Because mine was missing, I never felt whole.

  

  Arlene J. Chai
  • Past
  • Present
  • Defines