Lauren Tom Quotes
What if everything I thought was wrong with me was actually right with me? You have to have the courage to show who you are to the world.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films.
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then.
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I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
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I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.
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Politicians said that with our cheap labour, we could be competitive in the world. Nothing could be further from the truth. We were the most uncompetitive country with that cheap labour.
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You've never seen me debate anybody. On anything. Ever. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another. What the laws of physics say.
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The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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I love music. I've just been putting studios together, here and at my house in New Jersey and so I can always make music and express my ideas and work with people to fine tune them to where they need to be.
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What if everything I thought was wrong with me was actually right with me? You have to have the courage to show who you are to the world.
