BoA (Kwon Bo-ah) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.
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Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
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During the Cold War, the United States took its friends where it found them. If they were willing to cast their lot with us, from the Shah to Gen. Pinochet, we welcomed them. Democratic dissidents like Jawaharlal Nehru in India and Olof Palme in Sweden got the back of our hand.
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The fans treated me royally.
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The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
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A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.
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I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.
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We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.
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When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.
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I've still got a small fitness and conditioning business where I travel round the world doing stuff for individuals and corporations, mainly fitness training.
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One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends I went with hated it. Keeping quiet about my contribution, I was outed when one of them, reading the program at the restaurant during dinner, saw my name.
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We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process.
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More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.
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Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.
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It does everything Unix does only less reliably.
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Working ten times as hard will make you twice as good.
