Benedict Wong Quotes

It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.

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• I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.

  

  Zara Larsson
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• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
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• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
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• I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.

  

  Iggy Pop
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• When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.

  

  Orlando Cepeda
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• At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
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• A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
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• I liked 'Star Wars,' but I wasn't an uberfan like many people are.

  

  Daisy Ridley
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• I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash.

  

  Gabriel Mann
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• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.

  

  Quavo Migos
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• Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.

  

  Oliver St. John
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• Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them.

  

  Gary Allan
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• There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.

  

  Zubin Mehta
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• People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.

  

  Gary Oldman
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• Latinos finally have a genre of music that represents them, and they're supporting reggaeton in such huge numbers that people can't help but notice there's a revolution going on.

  

  Fat Joe
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• There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

  

  Barry White
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• I've always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.

  

  Dita Von Teese
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• In a common project, we can bring together well-meaning people from the Left and the Right.

  

  Emmanuel Macron
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• ...What I can't understand is why come here and try and change our country into the place that you've come from? And all I ask of people is come here, respect our country, respect our laws, our culture, our way of life. Be Australian, join us, enjoy this beautiful country and everything that it has to offer.

  

  Pauline Hanson
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• I'm not one of those people who is trying to act like I don't sleep. I used to be like, "Oh, I only need four hours." Now I need exactly 5 1/2 to 6 in order to feel like I've done well.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• Marriage was invented to make girls miserable. I will never get married again, not ever again.

  

  Nujood Ali
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• It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.

  

  Benedict Wong
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