Patrick Soon-Shiong Quotes
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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You've got the Trump water and Trump Steaks and Trump's very so-called dodgy university. And so many of the towers, the Trump towers around the world, the Trump resorts around the world, those are not owned by the Trump Organization.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
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Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.
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As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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Quality is everyone's responsibility.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.
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I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.
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Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
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As a champion and one of the best fighters in the world, guys should always step up to the plate and want to fight Jon Jones.
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St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.
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I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.
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The tragic nuclear accident at Fukushima underscored the urgent need to enhance nuclear safety and the international emergency response framework. I commend the International Atomic Energy Agency for its work.
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There's so much of a desire in the entertainment industry for newness, a desire to build somebody up and then treat them as old news within six months. I think you'd be naive if you didn't try to hold on to your own way of doing things.
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If you want to be the best, you've got to beat the best. The only problem is when I get that belt, who's going to be left to fight? That's what I want to know.
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Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at the housing projects we've got the poor people in.
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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
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The term 'demilitarized Palestinian state' is an oxymoron.
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I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.
