Kevin Kwan Quotes
Asian literature is evolving with the people. It's always a reflection on what's happening to the culture at large.
Quotes to Explore
-
The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.
-
I don't like people cleaning my room.
-
If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
-
I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.
-
I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too.
-
I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
-
I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.
-
It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
-
My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
-
I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
-
So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.
-
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
-
I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
-
In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.
-
I don't like to just talk about nothing, or less than nothing. If it's something interesting, I'm fine with it, but, 'Hey, Zack, how is your day?' People ask that, and somebody actually tells them what happened in their day? I don't have any real interest in that.
-
My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people.
-
People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
-
I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.
-
I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.
-
The Broadway run of 'Memphis' has been like going to the moon. It was so great to actually open at the Shubert Theatre and then amazing to be nominated for eight Tonys and attend all the luncheons and events.
-
I don't have any rock star demeanor to me. I just can't pull that off.
-
You don't have to follow what most players do by going to the top school. You can do anything at any school you're at, as long as you're focused and you work hard.
-
To me, Hollywood seems a little bipolar. Things happen; things don't happen. Someone's in a movie; someone's not in a movie. I've learned not to build my expectations.
-
Asian literature is evolving with the people. It's always a reflection on what's happening to the culture at large.
