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 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 -
I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
Yani Tseng
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If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
Carlos Slim -
Regardless of whether one is a writer or a reader, one's task consists first of all in mastering a life that is one's own, not imposed or prescribed from without, no matter how noble its appearance may be. For each of us is issued but one life, and we know full well how it all ends.
Joseph Brodsky -
The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that’s thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men’s rights.
Jesse Helms -
Wrestlers Compete as Individuals, Yet the Sport Builds Comradery Like No Other.
Cael Sanderson -
Towered cities please us then,And the busy hum of men.
John Milton -
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