Clara Shih Quotes
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I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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Going vegetarian - and then vegan - has calmed me down, and it has also made me physically and emotionally strong. I do crave meat once in a while, but I find that spiritually, non-vegetarian food works against my emotional health.
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
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Anytime something eats too much of my life, I kill it.
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I was in the big leagues my first year in pro ball - pretty fast. I really don't think I had an understanding of what it meant to be a pitcher at that level at that point.
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I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.
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The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.
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I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.
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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
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My entire life, I have viewed every problem as an opportunity - I've had no choice.
