Patrick Chan Quotes
I'm slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I've come from.
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I was an English major in college!
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The American people do not want their taxpayer dollars funding any activity that runs counter to the security of our nation or our ally Israel.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
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In 1995, the Clinton Administration reached an agreement with Cuban government that any refugee caught at sea would be sent back to Cuba while any refugee who reaches the United States shores would be allowed to begin the process to citizenship after one year.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
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My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
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If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.
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While the 20th century saw the world divided between a Communist East and a free and democratic West, new and different struggles define the 21st.
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In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life—November seasons of disaster, when a man's hearth and home would be cold indeed, without the clear, cheering gleam of intellect.
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The pop industry is so well-practised at channelling young people's creative energy that I think it gets abused.
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We do not invest in advertising... So racing is the best advertising for Ferrari.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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I'm slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I've come from.
