Cliff Chiang Quotes
What I've been trying to do with my art, which has been feeling very graphically sharp - to soften it up and make it feel more hand-done.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.
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Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nation to nation that education could not be tackled at the international level.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.
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I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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The more I grow, and the older I get, the more I am enjoying my life and know how precious it really is.
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What has always made the Clintons great politicians and better people is their unyielding commitment to expanding the middle class for everyone.
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It is crazy to have Judith Miller in jail.
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The oppression of a majority by a minority, and the demoralization inevitably resulting from it, is a phenomenon that has always occupied me and has done so most particularly of late.
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..poor art for poor people.
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What I've been trying to do with my art, which has been feeling very graphically sharp - to soften it up and make it feel more hand-done.
