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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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 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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Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
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There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.
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At the word I turned hastily to another column and found the news that had stirred him. And even in the midst of world-shaking events it stirred me too. For a brief moment I forgot the war and was back in that cheerful world where we used to be happy, where we greeted the rising sun with light hearts and saw its setting without fear. In that cheerful world I can hardly recall a time when a big man with a black beard was not my King ... I owe more undiluted happiness to him than to any man that ever lived. For he was the genial tyrant in a world that was all sunshine.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
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I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
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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.
