Andrew Cherng Quotes

I was born in Yangzhou, China, two years after World War II ended. I was 5 when my family escaped to Taiwan. Eight years later, we moved to Japan.

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• I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.

  

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• The student will try to defy the master. Always.

  

  Maggie Q
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• More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.

  

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• In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.

  

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• Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

  

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• I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

  

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• Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

  

  Harry Caray
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• When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.

  

  Tariq Ali
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• We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.

  

  Samuel Gompers
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• Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
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• I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!

  

  Yami Gautam
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• There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
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• There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.

  

  Ted Williams
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• Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.

  

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• Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.

  

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• We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.

  

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• Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.

  

  R. H. Tawney
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• The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.

  

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• Just open, honest communication is the best thing in the world.

  

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• Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.

  

  Nell Freudenberger
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• I was born in Yangzhou, China, two years after World War II ended. I was 5 when my family escaped to Taiwan. Eight years later, we moved to Japan.

  

  Andrew Cherng
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  • Family
  • War