Kevin Kwan Quotes
As a child, I could bike down the hill from my house and grab an ice-cold bottle of soda from the neighborhood grocer, which was nothing more than a corrugated metal shack run by two Indian men clad in sarongs.Kevin Kwan
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
Barbara Bush -
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
R. W. Apple, Jr. -
One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
Jack Keane -
I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
Marat Safin -
I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
G. Willow Wilson -
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
Tahl Raz -
I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
Paddy Ashdown -
I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
Adam Mansbach -
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
Ted Koppel -
It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
Mandy Moore -
Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
Wangari Maathai
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When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.
Illeana Douglas -
Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.
Ted Deutch -
Your body thinks radium is a great thing to pack into bone - where it kills some cells outright and scrambles the DNA of others, causing problems like cancer.
Sam Kean -
I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
Pat Metheny -
I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
Adam Ferrara -
I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
Paloma Elsesser
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He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.
Chanakya -
I've reluctantly discarded the notion of my continuing to manage the portfolio after my death - abandoning my hope to give new meaning to the term 'thinking outside the box.'
Warren Buffett -
At my confirmation, where you get the Holy Spirit, I came down the stairs at my party and had torn, like, 80 holes in my pantyhose and said I had the Holy Spirit, and just would do things like that all the time.
Paula Pell -
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln -
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
Adolf Loos -
As a child, I could bike down the hill from my house and grab an ice-cold bottle of soda from the neighborhood grocer, which was nothing more than a corrugated metal shack run by two Indian men clad in sarongs.
Kevin Kwan