Alex Chiu Quotes
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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You know, the genders are different in how they approach things, and so I really think that women put a lot more guilt on themselves than need be.
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Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law.
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Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.
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To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
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Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.
