Kevin Kwan Quotes
I do believe that peoples' natures can be changed, and they have to be changed if we want to live in this modern world and be a part of it.
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
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As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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I'm the best Twitterer.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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Kids, don't be too big to accept advice.
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In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite an awful mother. Still, she is the only one in the end who truly accepts her daughter.
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I love reality. I love the world. I love the smell of it. I love it.
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I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They're indulgences, essentially. I think, 'What would I like to spend five years really thinking about? What could I gain from thinking about for five years?'
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To let go of judgment does not mean that you don’t see what they do. It means that you recognize their behavior as a form of conditioning, and you see it and accept it as that. You don’t construct an identity out of it for that person.That liberates you as well as the other person from identification with conditioning, with form, with mind.
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Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.
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I do believe that peoples' natures can be changed, and they have to be changed if we want to live in this modern world and be a part of it.
