Clara Shih Quotes
Technologies and specific vendors may come and go, but massive cultural transformations and new kinds of relationships? Those don't go away.
Quotes to Explore
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Democrats and Republicans agree on most of a unified, politically viable, and workable immigration reform package. Both parties agree that border security is a key part of any strategy.
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When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?
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Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.
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For two people to satisfy everything each needs for their entire lives is a tall order. Some couples may be equipped to do this. Some are not.
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Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
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Technologies and specific vendors may come and go, but massive cultural transformations and new kinds of relationships? Those don't go away.
