Constance Wu Quotes

Public service is about serving all the people, including the ones who are not like you.

Constance Wu

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• We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Thinking
  • Black
  • Opinion

• I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Women
  • History

• You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Enemy

• The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • World
  • Business
  • Own

• I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • May
  • Training

• Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Human
  • Point
  • Group

• Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Want
  • Control
  • Leadership

• There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kind
  • Movement
  • Conservative

• I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • You
  • Mean
  • Person

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Money
  • Thought
  • Movies

• Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Lost
  • Human
  • Statistics

• It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Alone
  • Moral
  • Balance

• Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Important
  • Children
  • Education

• Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Wrong

• I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Good
  • Rich

• The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Long
  • Society
  • Political

• The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Women
  • Age
  • Respect

• The turning point for me was realizing that I would learn more at Google, trying to build a company, regardless of whether we failed or succeeded, than I would at any of the other companies I had offers from.

  

  Marissa Mayer
  • Trying

• I don't go out there and put on any sort of front for people. If I'm in a good mood, I appear in a good mood on TV, and if I'm in a bad mood, I just go out there and look like I'm in a bad mood.

  

  Dean Ambrose
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Australia is always a place that is dear to me; it is always my second home, and I try to get there as often as I can, but it is not next door, you know.

  

  Garfield Sobers
  • Home
  • Door

• Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Lie

• Public service is about serving all the people, including the ones who are not like you.

  

  Constance Wu
  • People
  • Service