Arthur Dong Quotes
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I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.
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I came here with a lot of things that I would like to get done for my community and my constituents. Shooting hoops at the White House was not at the top of the list but would certainly be a thrill.
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
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There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That might be true, although sadly I must admit that running a brilliant campaign does not translate into running a brilliant White House.
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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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White House officials acknowledge in broad terms that a president's time and public rhetoric are among his most valuable policy tools.
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I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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I love black truffles. I love white truffles.
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It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6.
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In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.
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The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.
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We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.
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So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.
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In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene.
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Chefs don't use white pepper just to avoid spoiling the whiteness of pommes puree or bechamel. It has a more peppery aroma, with sharpness and sweetness, too.
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Conor was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever.
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The Magician makes the visible, invisible. The Scientist makes the invisible, visible. The Artist stands in between, indivisible.
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You dread that there will be real problems during filming.
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Entertainment has this way of resetting itself.
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
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But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.
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You can't be invisible being Asian. You can't say "Hi, I'm white!"
