Wong Kar-wai Quotes
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.
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Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
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Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.
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How far should a person go in the name of true love?
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We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don’t is because it is detrimental to teamwork.
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I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.
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We love what we can't have, and we can't have what we love.
