Han Suyin Quotes
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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Bin Laden was intelligent, well-informed, and low key. The people around him treated him with great deference, calling him 'sheikh,' a term of respect.
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And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together.
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Most of my family is severely overweight. It's been taxing to keep my weight under control.
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I have stopped having goals. If you have many goals, and you don't reach your goals, it is very upsetting, so I just think of keeping it simple, working hard and going and playing the game. But I know there are going to be very important series for Indian cricket. I will just try my best to be in my fittest form.
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A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings.
