Kevin Kwan Quotes
I live in New York, but I still get the village gossip. My apartment is a crash pad for so many Singaporean cousins and friends.
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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I work out every day - and my daily routine is a mix of functional and strength training.
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I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
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In song the same rule applies as in dramatic verse: the meaning must yield itself, or yield itself sufficiently to arouse the attention and interest, in real time.
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The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's like, you can't see yourself doing something until you see somebody else doing it. Other people were encouraging me singing, but this was the first time that I could see myself writing songs and playing guitar.
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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
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I live in New York, but I still get the village gossip. My apartment is a crash pad for so many Singaporean cousins and friends.
