Patrick Soon-Shiong Quotes
There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
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To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
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What the SEAL teams do, what our training does, is it chips away the outer that layer and shows you what you're capable of and not capable of.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
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I've got five years of experience as a national security staffer in the U.S. Congress.
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There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.
