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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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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I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.
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I don't know that I can say what exactly love means to me because it would be hard to put that into perspective. But the older I get, the more I realize that you don't have to be around people you don't want to be around, and you don't have to be in a situation you don't want to be in.
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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People have always been fascinated by the foibles of the wealthy and privileged.
