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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My specialty as a collector is books that almost have value. When I love a book, I don't buy the first edition, because those have become incredibly expensive. But I might buy a beat-up copy of the second edition, third printing, which looks almost exactly the same as the first edition except that a couple of typos have been fixed.
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When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.
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That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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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.
