Ken Jeong Quotes
We're all conditioned to work hard, and it's not just an Asian thing: it's an Asian American thing. You maximize the little opportunity you have, and I've made a career.
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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I don't think you should limit what you read.
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I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.
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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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Let spades be trumps! she said, and trumps they were.
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I am not a regular at film festivals.
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Starting a company, your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. You're going to make decisions, you're going to make bets; most of them are going to turn out to be wrong.
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When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.
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I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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We're all conditioned to work hard, and it's not just an Asian thing: it's an Asian American thing. You maximize the little opportunity you have, and I've made a career.
