Anna Sui Quotes
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
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I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.
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I was scheduled to graduate from high school in 1943, but I was in a course that was supposed to give us four years of high school plus a year of college in our four years. So by the end of my junior year, I would have had enough credits to graduate from high school.
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Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
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Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
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It's such a private thing. It's a huge decision. It's not like you wake up one day and say, 'Oh, I'm going to change my sex - won't that be fun?'
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I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.
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I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States.
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You have to know why you get up every morning.
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For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
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The idea of the elite as composed of men and women having a finer moral character is an ideology of the elite.
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I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child...
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Der thörigste von allen Irrthümern ist, wenn junge gute Köpfe glauben, ihre Originalität zu verlieren, indem sie das Wahre anerkennen, was von andern schon anerkannt worden.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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I kept turning down roles because I knew I just wasn't ready for them.
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I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.
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I bought a fur coat with my first pay cheque and it lived better than I did for years.