Kevin Kwan Quotes
I wanted to explore what all this new-found wealth means for the different generations of Chinese who have to live together in this place that is transforming at warp speed into the richest country on the planet.
Quotes to Explore
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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I've been training quite hard.
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I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it's important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
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Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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There was a time when you were not. There never will be a time when you will not be.
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Even the stout of heart shrink when they see the approach of death.
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The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind.
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There's a movement for simplifying your life: purchase less stuff, own a few things that are very high quality that last a long time, and that are multifunctional.
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Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.
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I wanted to explore what all this new-found wealth means for the different generations of Chinese who have to live together in this place that is transforming at warp speed into the richest country on the planet.
