An Wang Quotes
Progress is not a straight line; the future is not a mere projection of trends in the present. Rather, it is revolutionary. It overturns the conventional wisdom of the present, which often conceals or ignores the clues to the future.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
Fatema Mernissi
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
Taylor Caldwell
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All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.
Rachel Bloom
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
Hanna Rosin
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
Ingrid Newkirk
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
Irvin D. Yalom
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
Rachael Taylor
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
Adam Clarke
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
Ida Lupino
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
Karen Salmansohn
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No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.
Pam Bondi
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
Candace Kita
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.
Zhang Ziyi
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
Vanessa Brown
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
Hailey Gates
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
Van Wyck Brooks
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
Orhan Pamuk
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
Tabare Vazquez
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I've thought about it, but I don't think I'd ever get a 'Teen Wolf' tattoo, and I don't know why.
Tyler Posey
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An executive producer with an all-male writing staff once inadvertently revealed his deep, dark fear. While discussing a full-time position for me, he mused out loud, 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change everything.' Of course, what he really meant was: 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change me.'
Nell Scovell
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
V. S. Naipaul
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Progress is not a straight line; the future is not a mere projection of trends in the present. Rather, it is revolutionary. It overturns the conventional wisdom of the present, which often conceals or ignores the clues to the future.
An Wang