Clara Shih Quotes
My father, a math professor in Hong Kong, worked as an electrical engineer here. My mother was an art teacher, but once we came to the United States, she went back to school and became certified as a special-education teacher.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.
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People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I am just one human being.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
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I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that's fine. And it might not be right, because I'm the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It's the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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I'm not one of these people who want to tear down our heroes and that kind of thing.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
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Never get involved with a business that you can't really be hands-on - that if your employees quit, you can't run yourself. If I can't cut hair, why open a barbershop?
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I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It's beautiful. I love it.
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Theocratic and military authorities share one thing: they have no sense of humour.
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I've always been less interested in the person on the top of the Bellagio than I am at the person whose house got moved to create the Bellagio.
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While I began writing 'Rules of Civility' in 2006, the genesis of the book dates back to the early 1990s, when I happened upon a copy of 'Many Are Called,' the collection of portraits that Walker Evans took on the New York City subways in the late 1930s with a hidden camera.
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History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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I got to know Coach Wooden at the end of his life.
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My father, a math professor in Hong Kong, worked as an electrical engineer here. My mother was an art teacher, but once we came to the United States, she went back to school and became certified as a special-education teacher.
