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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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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When freedom rises from the killing floor,No lock of iron or rivet can restrain the door.And no kind of army can hope to win a warLike trying to stop the rain or still the lion`s roar,Like trying to stop the whirlwind scattering seeds and sporesLike trying to stop the tin cans rapping out jailhouse semaphore.
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In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.
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Robert Altman was such an incredible person to have the privilege to know and meet and have dinner with.
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People say that life is short, but it isn't short. It's very long.
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To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes; nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or enter their council; many, indeed, after escaping from battle, have ended their infamy with the halter.
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People have always been fascinated by the foibles of the wealthy and privileged.
