Kevin Kwan Quotes
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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The devil made me do it.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
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Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
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In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.
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I want people to remember me as a guy who works hard.
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Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.
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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
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There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art.
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We can put millions of America's idle young people to work helping to repair and restore America's deteriorating infrastructure, public utilities, and transportation systems. Nothing would revitalize the nation's sagging economy more than such a commitment.
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Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.
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People have always been fascinated by the foibles of the wealthy and privileged.
