Brian Wong Quotes
Even if you get to be a CEO, you’ll still walk into a room with the attitude of “You guys are all so much smarter than me—that’s why you’re here, so I’ll just toss out a couple of ideas.” People love that. Who doesn’t love respect? The best leaders don’t just fake it till they make it; they fake it after they make it, but in the other direction.
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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
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I don't drink hot beverages.
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?
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We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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Ruzzle's my therapy. When I get off the stage from a packed show and I'm exhausted, I'll just go Ruzzle for like a good 30 minutes.
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I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
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I wanted to be a Disney Channel star! I wanted to be Hannah Montana.
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My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.
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My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.
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Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
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There are a million studies that say the money you put into a kitchen and bath update you get back. That's one of those places you can't go wrong. It can be as simple as updating counters and a backsplash.
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I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, 'That's a huge idea.' Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.
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But I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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Under a paper-money system, a determined government can always generate higher spending and hence positive inflation.
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The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will quit killing each other over their different strategies.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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I think I'm confused, but I'm not sure!
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Even if you get to be a CEO, you’ll still walk into a room with the attitude of “You guys are all so much smarter than me—that’s why you’re here, so I’ll just toss out a couple of ideas.” People love that. Who doesn’t love respect? The best leaders don’t just fake it till they make it; they fake it after they make it, but in the other direction.
