Andrew Lau Quotes
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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People trash talk me.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.
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I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.
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My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,000 feet to the surface, most of the animals - in fact, in many places, 80 to 90 percent of the animals that I bring up in that net - make light. This makes for some pretty spectacular light shows.
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The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.
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The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.
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I don't go, 'I'm in the papers all the time,' because there are loads of people in the papers all the time. Sometimes I'm still like, 'Ooh, look- there's me!' I'm never like, 'Wow, look at me on the bus.' You have to be a bit grounded about things like that.
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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Events are not a matter of chance.
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You pay more in wages, get more in in tax, you get people living a higher standard, you get more money. It's a kind of circle.
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Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.
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I admire Ridley Scott, and I'm thrilled to be making a movie for him.
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All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives.
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With every movie, I try to do something different, whether it's action, comedy or drama.
