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.Kevin Kwan
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen -
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.
Rachel Hunter -
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.
Walter Lippmann -
What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
Patricia Clarkson -
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.
Sam Graves
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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.
T. Boone Pickens -
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.
Warren Spector -
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.
Samantha Cameron -
You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
Laila Ali -
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl Jung -
My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
Yusuf Hamied
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
Ralph Nader -
And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
Venerable Bede -
I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.
Vidya Balan -
I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
Beau Bridges -
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Jack Kerouac -
But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
Aaron Neville
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When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
Anne Lamott -
Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.
James Brown -
I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.
Anthony Hopkins -
Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.
Pablo Picasso -
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.
Kevin Kwan