Kevin Kwan Quotes
I came from a family of extremely old money, and so by the time I was born, there was really just a trickle of money left.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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As an organization, Esri is strong, and we're continuing to grow. We're dedicated to this. And we're excited to see what you can accomplish and to watch your work evolve.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.
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Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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The best advice I ever got as an organizer was that if you can organize your family, you're a good organizer.
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My work is giving space - learning of its way and being in its service at the same time. We each have responsibility to express ourselves. And in this expression is the key to our healing.
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The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
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Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.
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The great ideas start flowing when you stop thinking about the obvious way of doing it.
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I came from a family of extremely old money, and so by the time I was born, there was really just a trickle of money left.
