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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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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The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.
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Funny how defined we are by how we present ourselves to the world.
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Location is a very important aspect to songwriting.
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My number-one website is brainpickings.org. It opens you up to different authors and gives insights into the literary world. Reading about the love letters novelist Vladimir Nabokov wrote to his wife Vera blew my mind. Fascinating.
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I look 10 years younger than I am. Unfortunately, sometimes I act like I'm 10 years old.
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'Mudbound,' you know, is about home. 'Mudbound' is about what it means to be a citizen, and 'Mudbound,' in fact, is set in this post-reconstruction era that we haven't really explored. You know, not since 'Sounder' have we even really explored that experience.
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I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.
