Cliff Chiang Quotes
Paul Smith's artwork was so elegant and so graphic, so I think that's always had a strong effect on me, especially starting out.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
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Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
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We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.
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When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.
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I don't do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily.
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What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade.
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Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.
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What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day's high and most likely 'breaks' out to the upside to close above a trading range. This is the twitching worm that causes the public to leap before they look.
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Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.
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I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.
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Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.
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Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That's what I'm after.
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Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.
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What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.
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The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.
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Paul Smith's artwork was so elegant and so graphic, so I think that's always had a strong effect on me, especially starting out.
