Cliff Chiang Quotes

You want, whenever you're telling a story, to have a certain amount of range, and you want to be able to take the audience on that ride with you.

Cliff Chiang

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• I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Relationship
  • Child
  • Poverty

• Whether people like it or not, China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Important
  • America

• I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Home
  • House
  • Lucky

• I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Girl
  • Clothes
  • Machista

• I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Man
  • City
  • New York

• Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • War
  • Politics
  • Without

• Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Together
  • Want
  • Giving

• I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • World
  • Thought
  • Model

• In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the very human components of society that others don't want to think about, from writers such as Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud to Genet and Sarrazin and right on up to Norman Mailer.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • Long
  • History

• I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.

  

  Barry McGee
  • School
  • Art
  • Kids

• I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Nature
  • Way
  • Reason

• Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Player
  • English
  • Language

• Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Work
  • Man
  • Clock

• I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Emotional

• My mom is a sculptress.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Mom

• I am not a labor hater.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Labor
  • Hater

• I grew my dreadlocks 12 years ago because they give me the freedom to roll out of bed and not spend hours on my woolly, thick hair. I get tons of dropped jaws and compliments, so I reckon folks like them all right.

  

  Valerie June
  • Freedom
  • Me
  • Hair

• Never for one single moment have I doubted the rightness of what I did at Munich, nor can I believe that it was possible for me to do more than I did to prepare the country for war after Munich, given the violent & persistent opposition I had to fight against all the time.

  

  Neville Chamberlain
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Country

• Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and inevitable, but it is impossible to foresee their consequences. These have only been found out by long study, extending over many centuries. Much of our knowledge is due to a comparatively few great mathematicians such as Newton, Euler, Gauss, or Riemann; few careers can have been more satisfying than theirs. They have contributed something to human thought even more lasting than great literature, since it is independent of language.

  

  Edward Charles Titchmarsh
  • Study
  • Language
  • Literature

• When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Eating

• As long as I am chairman, regulating global warming pollution is off the table indefinitely. I don't want there to be any uncertainty about that.

  

  Joe Barton
  • Long

• They can call me crazy if I failAll the chance that I needIs one in a millionAnd they can call me brilliantIf I succeed…

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Crazy

• You want, whenever you're telling a story, to have a certain amount of range, and you want to be able to take the audience on that ride with you.

  

  Cliff Chiang