Arthur Potts Dawson Quotes
My plan is to open five restaurants based on the five elements in Chinese philosophy: wood, water, fire, earth and metal.
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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
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It's better to be honest about your opinions than to pretend you don't have them.
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Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.
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As long as I can contribute, I'll continue working.
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You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.
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I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
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To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.
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My ex-wife is a water sign and I'm an earth sign. Together we made mud.
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All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
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We were walking through Petco Park after a signing, and this girl plowed through security and grabbed onto my neck and started pulling. Her grip was so impressively strong that this huge security guard was struggling to get her off of me. I was like, 'Whoa. That's kind of crazy.'
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My plan is to open five restaurants based on the five elements in Chinese philosophy: wood, water, fire, earth and metal.
