Kevin Kwan Quotes
I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after he finished medical school to work there in a hospital. So I went back into my family archives and was able to find out his exact address; it was a street that was in the French Concession.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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And that's the way it is.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life.
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I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.
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How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.
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This is love, and the trouble with it: it can make you embarrassed. Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up. Everybody's chewed over this. This unites us, this part of love.
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To me, age doesn't make a difference in terms of how playful or fun life can be.
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I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after he finished medical school to work there in a hospital. So I went back into my family archives and was able to find out his exact address; it was a street that was in the French Concession.
