Buwei Yang Chao Quotes
I learned that in dealing with things, you spent much more time and energy in dealing with people than in dealing with things.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.
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One of the first acts during the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997 was a major board overhaul.
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I haven't been to Berlin Fashion Week before, but it's really on the up. Being an artist as well as a model, I know that the art world is booming here, so it makes sense that fashion would feel that effect, too.
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One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
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My father managed shopping malls when I was a kid, and my high school job was to dress up in an elf costume and take photos of kids sitting on Santa Claus's lap.
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It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
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Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
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L.A.'s a pretty, warm, easy, breezy place. You can sunbathe, get a Mai Tai, and wake up five months later. And it's still sunny. And they're still serving Mai Tais.
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And for an instant, I fantasized about wrapping my arms around her right then and there.
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But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.
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When the Pixar people call, you jump at the opportunity.
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I just really try to stay focused on what the material is wanting to do. My basic assumption is that no one will ever listen to it anyway. It's fidelity to the material. That's my contract: It's me and the material. And if it connects with other people, I'm thrilled.
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I learned that in dealing with things, you spent much more time and energy in dealing with people than in dealing with things.
